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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Friday, October 5, 2012

5 October - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 07: Kenyans (L-R) Wambugu Wa Nyingi, Jane Muthoni, Paulo Nzili and Ndiku Mutua stand outside the High Court on April 7, 2011 in London, England. Four Kenyans are taking the British Government to court over allegations that they were tortured during the Mau Mau uprising when Britain was the colonial power. They claim they were assaulted between 1952 and 1961. Kenya gained independence in 1963. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 07: John Nottingham, a former District Officer in the Colonial Service stands outside the High Court on April 7, 2011 in London, England. Mr Nottingham is a witness for four Kenyans who are taking the British Government to court over allegations that they were tortured during the Mau Mau uprising when Britain was the colonial power. They claim they were assaulted between 1952 and 1961. Kenya gained independence in 1963. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

map from CIA World Factbook 2002, converted from original format (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 05: Supporters of the three Kenyans who allege they were tortured by the British Government during the Mau Mau uprising in the 1950's, cheer as they leave the High Court on October 5, 2012 in London, England. The High Court has today granted permission for the complainants to proceed with their claim for damages against the British Government. The ruling was reached despite the government's claim that it is no longer liable for the torture by colonial authorities and that too much time has elapsed since the detention and torture of the victims. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

Scoop - NZ

The
rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer - according to the
four-annually poverty report of Germany’s labor ministry the wealthiest
ten percent of the population now hold more than 50 percent of all
wealth. The bottom half of all households shares less than one percent.
Especi ...

"Beneficiaries
are being stereotyped as bludgers, parasites, lazy, selfish, that we
all neglect our kids and would rather spend money on drugs and alcohol. I
don’t fit into that. My kids are healthy and happy and go to school
every day with full lunch boxes. That’s not me, and that’s not okay,’’
...

In
a brief media statement Prime Minister John Key heightened suspicions
that this country's relationship with the United States has become one
of servility rather than friendship....It is preposterous to suggest Mr
Dotcom threatens our national security. The Government's unquestioning
readiness ...

New
Zealand First leader Winston Peters says Prime Minister John Key is
lying about two key points in the Kim Dotcom affair: whether he
discussed the accused pirate during a dinner with Warner Brothers
executives in Los Angeles, and whether he knew about the GCSB's illegal
surveillance before Se ...

Having become a nation from sea to sea to sea in 1867, it appears that
Stephen Harper and his clique wants to move Canada to become not only a
colonial satellite of the United States, but also a colony of Britain.
Canadians took years to be seen to be an independent middle power in the
world, and now Harper is proceeding to unravel all that work without
any public hearings. Maybe ....

UFO Sightings Daily reports on 20 September 2012 that a U.S. Military
and Foreign Affairs Journal published an article on 17 September 2012
that “an Asian intelligence agency reports that a combined fleet
operation between the U.S. and China has been going on, a full combat
operation against what we are told is a “highly unfriendly
extra-terrestrial threat.” Are the contents of the art ....

A witness reports UFO activity over Niagara Falls, Ontario on 11
September 2012 according to testimony documented on UFO Sightings Daily
that was published on 19 September 2012. The report reinforces
allegations of a military base under Lake Ontario that had been made by
Commander X who wrote Underground Alien Bases in 1990
(ISBN:0-938294-92-X).
UFO Sightings Daily is coordinated by Scott C. W ....

For years now NATO and related state sponsored anti-Islam gangs have
been targeting Muslims and Islamic faith. NATO's Western anti-Islam hate
campaign unleashed, upon the Sept-11 hoax, through the media, has
negatively influenced people globally. Although an impression has been
created that some sick individuals are trying to create wedge between
Muslims and Christians, it is quite apparent that N ....

Soon, City Council will be debating allowing a mega casino to be built
in Toronto and casino lobbyists have their eyes on our waterfront.
Toronto and East York Community Council wants to hear from residents
about their views on the potential location of a Casino in downtown
Toronto. We have scheduled a special public consultation session and I
hope you can attend:
Date: Wednesday October 10, 2012Time: 6:00 pmLocation: Council Chambers,
Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen St W
To register to sp

Canadians are feeling the pinch. Families are earning less and
inflation is increasing the cost of everyday essentials. Students are
grappling with rising tuition rates and have fewer opportunities for
employment when they graduate. Youth unemployment is at a historic high
and student employment is at record lows.
As Canadians adjust to these economic realities, our debt-to-income
ratio has grown to 152%, much higher than the United States, and entire
generations of Canadians have little or no

Headline News

Soon, City Council will be debating allowing a mega casino to be built
in Toronto and casino lobbyists have their eyes on our waterfront.
Toronto and East York Community Council wants to hear from residents
about their views on the potential location of a Casino in downtown
Toronto. We have scheduled a special public consultation session and I
hope you can attend:
Date: Wednesday October 1 ....

Canadians are feeling the pinch. Families are earning less and
inflation is increasing the cost of everyday essentials. Students are
grappling with rising tuition rates and have fewer opportunities for
employment when they graduate. Youth unemployment is at a historic high
and student employment is at record lows.
As Canadians adjust to these economic realities, our debt-to-income
ratio has grown ....

Liberal MP Justin Trudeau is set to enter the race for the leadership of
the Liberal Party of Canada. His team has announced a rally scheduled
for his riding in Montreal today.
Radio-Canada last week broke the news of Trudeau's impending leadership
bid, but Trudeau wouldn't confirm the story for reporters as he walked
into the Liberal Party's weekly caucus meeting.
The rally is set for a commu ....

Almost every politically-aware person on the planet is puzzled by
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s bizarre obsession with Iran.
Netanyahu is risking his political career, his reputation, and Israel’s
future by intervening in the US presidential elections. He is using all
of Zionism’s considerable might – including organized crime assets like
“Las Vegas Godfather” Sheldon Adelson – ....

Do you like producing YouTube videos? Do you think you can make a
better video that the above submission? The Canadian is currently
inviting proposals for a minimum 30 second video that can inspire
editorial contributors to The Canadian. Submitted video should be
entertaining.The first place videographer that is picked by our
editorial committee will receive $100.00. T ....

The indefatigable efforts to his credit Vijay Mehta, a South African of
Indian origin based in the United Kingdom, the founding Trustee of
Fortune Forum Charity and author of "The economics of killing" shows
concern expending diligent care to highlight the role western
governments play in perpetuating conflicts around the world.
Kudos for a stupendous task; Vijay Mehta delving into an area of the ....

UFO Sightings Daily reports on 24 September 2012 Russian researchers
detected Cube shaped UFOs on NASA photos of the Sun. Could this report
have anything to do with a U.S. Military and Foreign Affairs Journal
published an article on 17 September 2012 which states that “an Asian
intelligence agency reports that a combined fleet operation between the
U.S. and China, has been going on, a full comba ....

UFO Sightings Daily reports on 21 September 2012 Archontic-like
entities hovered over war ravaged Syria on 21 September 2012.
UFO Sightings Daily is coordinated by Scott C. Waring, who is a UFO
researcher and author who has become an honorary astronomer through his
independent investigative research on anomalies in space and on planets
like Mars. Mr. Waring had been affiliated with the United St ....

For decades, energy has preoccupied Canadian policy-makers, from the
massive investments in nuclear and hydro energy in the 1960s and 1970s
to the more recent focus on fuel-cell technology, renewable energy such
as wind and solar, Alberta’s oil sands and the country’s evolving
pipeline infrastructure. In fact, energy accounts for seven per cent of
the economy and almost a quarter of our export ....

Having become a nation from sea to sea to sea in 1867, it appears that
Stephen Harper and his clique wants to move Canada to become not only a
colonial satellite of the United States, but also a colony of Britain.
Canadians took years to be seen to be an independent middle power in the
world, and now Harper is proceeding to unravel all that work without
any public hearings. Maybe ....

UFO Sightings Daily reports on 20 September 2012 that a U.S. Military
and Foreign Affairs Journal published an article on 17 September 2012
which states that “an Asian intelligence agency reports that a combined
fleet operation between the U.S. and China, has been going on, a full
combat operation against what we are told is a “highly unfriendly
extra-terrestrial threat.” Alex Collier sugges ....

UFO Sightings Daily reports on 20 September 2012 that a U.S. Military
and Foreign Affairs Journal published an article on 17 September 2012
that “an Asian intelligence agency reports that a combined fleet
operation between the U.S. and China has been going on, a full combat
operation against what we are told is a “highly unfriendly
extra-terrestrial threat.” Are the contents of the art ....

"You are either with us or against us" a message soon after 911,
conveyed by US Secretary of State Collin Powell to Pakistan President
Parvez Musharraf which, as understood, unnerved him and a snap decision
"to be with us" considered by main ruling and opposition parties in
Pakistan a decision of a "dictator" that pushed Pakistan into a
situation creating multiple problems for the country. It is a ....

A witness reports UFO activity over Niagara Falls, Ontario on 11
September 2012 according to testimony documented on UFO Sightings Daily
that was published on 19 September 2012. The report reinforces
allegations of a military base under Lake Ontario that had been made by
Commander X who wrote Underground Alien Bases in 1990
(ISBN:0-938294-92-X).
UFO Sightings Daily is coordinated by Scott C. W ....

For years now NATO and related state sponsored anti-Islam gangs have
been targeting Muslims and Islamic faith. NATO's Western anti-Islam hate
campaign unleashed, upon the Sept-11 hoax, through the media, has
negatively influenced people globally. Although an impression has been
created that some sick individuals are trying to create wedge between
Muslims and Christians, it is quite apparent that N ....

The Public Servants Alliance of Canada joined the Occupy movement in a
march on Parliament Hill Monday afternoon to coincide with the new
session of Parliament.
The march marked the one-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street
movement. About 100 people turned out for the rally in Ottawa, held
concurrently with Occupy protests around the world.
“I want the message to be heard, that these ....

UFO Sightings Daily reports on 16 September 2012 that an apparent alien
saved a Chinese man who was about to be run over by a truck.
Why would the reported alien seek to save the human shown in the video
relative to other humans who may be subjected to similar accidents in
China?
UFO Sightings Daily is coordinated by Scott C. Waring, who is a UFO
researcher and author who has become an honorary ....

Did Archons intentionally orchestrate Anti-American riots to further
move our planet Earth into an agenda that will complement the agenda of a
political-military-industrial complex? Were Muslims “goaded” into
rioting?
Before he was involved in the making of a noxious video that provided an
excuse for anti-American riots in the Middle East, and before he was
convicted of federal bank fraud, ....

Independent - London

Three
Kenyans tortured at the hands of the British authorities during Kenya's
Mau Mau rebellion have won the right to a High Court trial in a
landmark ruling that paves the way for thousands of legal claims arising
from brutality during the colonial era.Related StoriesElderly Kenyan
victims of t ...

President
Barack Obama received a pre-election boost today as official figures
saw the US unemployment rate drop to its lowest level in nearly four
years.Related StoriesHugo Chavez finally meets his matchArgentina's
military forces go on strikeMedicine implicated in rare meningitis cases
went to ...

Three
elderly Kenyan victims of torture during the Mau Mau uprising can
pursue their compensation claims against the Government.Related
Stories'Historic ruling' for elderly Kenyan victims of torture during
Mau Mau uprising

Beekeepers in northeastern France are all abuzz after their bees
started producing blue honey.Related StoriesNorway: Rwandan 'made
genocide victims dig own graves'Gay pride march banned in BelgradeFrench
First Lady's Royal mistake'People do worse things,' says politician who
slashed tyres of di ...

Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has
learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image
of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top
Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill
Clinton.﻿

More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are
seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great
Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even
deeper downturn. ﻿

Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a
server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released
internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.﻿

Innovation Canada

If
Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it
would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing
their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their
crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were
looking for a hearing ...

Cancer,
heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians.
As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer
engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and
Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly
diseases. Based at ...

For
the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation
(CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award
was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is
one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the
Departm ...

It’s
been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of
hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated
soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however,
scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of
toxic chemic ...

Trudging
through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous
work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the
health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy
industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of
Princ ...

Signs of the times

Gasoline
station owners in the Los Angeles area including Costco Wholesale Corp.
(COST) are beginning to shut pumps as the state's oil refiners started
rationing supplies and spot prices surged to a record.
Valero Energy Corp. (VLO) stopped selling gasoline on the spot, or
wholesale, market in ...

Police
in Manchester Township, NJ are investigating a mysterious boom that
shook block after block in the Ocean County community Thursday night.
Residents say it felt and sounded like an explosion.
"It was so loud that my windows were rattling" said Jayne Yereance. "I
really thought the house n ...

Mexico
City - Restoration works at Chichen Itza have confirmed the hypothesis
that the ballgame played in that ancient Mayan city in southeastern
Mexico had an astronomical function, the National Anthropology and
History Institute, or INAH, said.
After almost two years of restoration and preser ...

A
new search has begun at a Greek island where an ancient device known as
the world's "oldest computer" was found over a century ago, an official
said Thursday, adding that other discoveries were possible.
Archaeologists this week returned to Antikythera, the Aegean Sea island
where sponge dive ...

We
obtained further follow-up on C/2012 S1 (ISON) on 2012, Oct. 4.6, again
through the 2.0-m f/10.0 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD + Bessel R filter of
Faulkes Telescope North (F65) Haleakala.
Stacking of 9 exposures, 120 seconds each, produced an image where a
well developed and elongated coma measuri ...

KURZWEIL ACCELERATING INTELLIGENCE is a thoughtful site, with a post by
Amara D. Angelica, "Welcome to 2035…the Age of Surprise" that is worthy
of perusal. Since its creation in 2001, Kurzweil Accelerating
Intelligence —
explores the forecasts and insights on accelerating change arti ...

MAYBE
STUPID INSECTS aren't so stupid. According to George Dvorsky's article
in io9, "Enslaved worker ants fight back through acts of sabotage",
there are species that have developed effective resistance to slavery.
The ant has been a creature respected by various cultures, and appea ...

Media Matters for America

Media
figures have rushed to discredit the newly released jobs numbers,
claiming that the drop in the unemployment rate to 7.8 percent has been
manufactured to help President Obama's reelection chances. In fact,
experts dismiss the claims as unfounded conspiracy theories and agree
that the numbe ...

Conservative
media have a history of dismissing newly released jobs numbers,
claiming the government "cooks the books" and "manipulates" the numbers
to paint a favorable picture of the Obama administration. In fact,
conservatives base their attacks on discredited and faulty claims, and
no hard e ...

Republican
presidential candidate Mitt Romney threw his right-wing media
cheerleaders under the bus when he stated that his comments about 47
percent of Americans were "completely wrong." Prior to this statement,
the right-wing media had embraced Romney's comments and even encouraged
them t ...

Global Research.ca

Today’s
employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows 114,000 new
jobs in September and a drop in the rate of unemployment from 8.1% to
7.8%. As 114,000 new jobs are not sufficient to stay even with
population growth, the drop in the unemployment rate is the result of
not counting ...

The
instant analysis after the first presidential debate — even on
liberal-leaning MSNBC — was that Mitt Romney was the decisive “winner.”
But Romney not only ducked the specifics of his plans but looked
sneaky and nervous in doing so, writes Robert Parry.…

Last
weekend, representatives of the troika—the European Central Bank (ECB),
European Commission (EC) and the International Monetary Fund
(IMF)—returned to Athens to discuss a third package of budget cuts with
the Greek government.
Officially, the troika has the task of preparing a report on Gre ...

In
the 24 hours since Wednesday night’s debate between President Obama and
his Republican challenger Mitt Romney, the American media has been
filled with commentary on the failure of Obama to conduct a serious
defense of his record or mount an effective attack on his opponent.…

TPM Cafe

You
could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the
head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré,
suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch"
of government on the Internet's operations.
M. Touré will be running a majo ...

The
political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate
over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better
than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One
key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a
differen ...

Hoping
to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National
University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created
somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that
authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael
Madison has inadvert ...

The
right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of
my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one
article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types
cannot contain their feeling of triumph.
There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...

Water - AlterNet

The drought that has kept much of the nation in its grip this summer
brings a host of additional downstream worries for growers already
struggling with reduced yields.Cattle are being poisoned by
cyanide-laced weeds in Arkansas. Across the Midwest water-soluble
fertilizers are concentrating in ...

Beit Ummar used to be known as the fruit basket of Palestine.Nestled in
the Hebron Mountains, the old Beit Ummar was covered in olive orchards
and trees bearing brightly colored lemons, plums and dates. Lush, leafy
vineyards wound their way through the meandering mountain roads, bearing
robust ...

To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive
the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here.Last winter, fossil-fuel
enthusiasts began trumpeting the dawn of a new “golden age of oil” that
would kick-start the American economy, generate millions of new jobs,
and free this ...

Recently, Gulf area legislators have been pushing to get their states a
larger share of government income from offshore drilling. We’re told
that they need the extra revenue to improve flood protection. But more
is afoot here, and it deserves scrutiny.First, here’s the background,
from the Los ...

This article was published in collaboration
with GlobalPossibilities.org.Winter brings wonderland dreams of
pristine, snow-covered landscapes. At the Arizona Snowbowl resort, you
can ski on it. You can sip hot chocolate gazing upon it. You can even
get married on it.But you might not want to m ...

Public Citizen in Texas

Actress
Daryl Hannah has been arrested along with Winnsboro ranch owner Eleanor
Fairchild, 78, while staging a protest against Keystone XL construction
on Mrs. Fairchild’s farm. The duo where defending Mrs. Fairchild’s home
and business, Fairchild Farms, a portion of which has been e ...

Bill
McKibben, founder of 350.org, and technical adviser to the Texas
Drought Project, will appear Thursday, October 4th, at 7 PM at the Belo
Center for New Media Auditorium (BMC 2.106), at the northeast corner of
Dean Keeton and Guadalupe, University of Texas, Austin, TX. McKibben is
known for ...

The
House Committee on Environmental Regulation held a public hearing today
to take invited testimony on an interim charge before the 83rd
legislative session starts in January of 2013. They examined the
federal eight-hour ozone standard under the National Ambient Air Quality
Standards program ...

The
controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision Citizens United – that gave
corporations untold influence in our electoral system and said “money”
is “speech” – has created an environment in which millions of dollars in
corporate cash is drowning out the voices ...

When you subtract out shady roofs, renters, and other factors, only
about 25% of Americans have a place to install solar power. With the
high upfront cost of a complete system, the potential solar universe
shrinks further. That changes with “community solar.” After a long wait
on the stat ...

Grassroots

alegria-small_pic.jpg
Yesterday, Grassroots International received the alarming news that our
partner Rafael Alegria, a leader of La Via Campesina in Honduras, has
been moved to a safe house in fear for his life, following the murder of
his ...

right_to_food_-_india-_fian.jpg
In the current context in which we see local food economies being
encroached by a few corporations, food sovereignty is an ultimate goal
for not only farmers, but consumers as well. This battle for the right
...

no_farmers_no_food.jpg
The Farm Bill presented Congress with an opportunity to change some of
the fundamental structures of our food system, by creating a
farmer-owned reserve and establishing a price floor that reflects
farmers’ true cost ...

Climate

(Climate Central)
Climate scientists have long known that human-generated greenhouse
emissions are only part of the story with global warming. A rising
planetary temperature sets in motion all sorts of secondary effects that
can boost ...

(New York Times)
BEIJING — China in recent years established global dominance in
renewable energy, its solar panel and wind turbine factories forcing
many foreign rivals out of business and its policy makers hailed by
environmentalists ...

(BBC)
Electric cars might pollute much more than petrol or diesel-powered cars, according to new research.
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology study found greenhouse gas emissions rose dramatically if coal was used ...

(AP)
OLYMPIA, Wash. — The state Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that the state's hazardous substances tax is constitutional.
The high court upheld a King County Superior Court ruling that found the state is not precluded from ...

(Bloomberg)
At the end of a long dirt road, past bayous and housing developments
west of New Orleans, sits a tranquil swamp of cypress and tupelo trees
that could prove key to this region’s future. In September, the power
utility Enter ...

Greece's
creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly
agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember
one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.

Greeks
smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of
opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are
underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than
elsewhere.

Booman Tribune

With
the unemployment rate now down to 7.8 percent, it is at the same level
it was when President Obama took office. When you subtract all the jobs
that were lost in his first 13 months on the job from the jobs that
have been added since then, you get 325,000 net jobs created. Despite a
total ...

Sally
Quinn is as entrenched at the Washington Post as anyone could be. That
comes with being Ben Bradlee's wife. But she is a continuous source of
embarrassment for the paper. Consider this segment from her latest
column: This is a religious country. Part of claiming your
citizenship is c ...

If
Mitt Romney had promised in the debate to write (once elected) every
American a check for $50,000, our pundits would still have stood around
congratulating the man for coming out the winner. They see it as
their job to be psychologists rather than experts. Imagine if we
had both Oba ...

BooMan
is currently surviving a train delay, and I am here at home with a
teething (molars!) Finny and a keyless car...so here's an open thread.
Anyone see any interesting news stories about something other than
the debate? Please post it with a link in the comments! Discuss

Environmental Graffiti

Over
the years, sporting venues around the world have borne witness to some
shocking and deadly events among spectators. Here are the 10 Worst
Sports Riots Ever.
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the full, formatted version of the article

These
dramatic images capture the final minutes of a decommissioned Navy
warship as it is used to test the firepower of a submarine. Boom...
This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see
the full, formatted version of the article

The
governments involved in WWI spent considerable energy recruiting people
through propaganda. Here are 10 Vintage Nursing Recruitment Posters
from World War I.
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the full, formatted version of the article

On
Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia,
triggering a tsunami that devastated the region closest to the epicenter
– as the pictures show.
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the full, formatted version of the article

Everyday
objects, plants and insects take on bizarre and beautiful shapes when
viewed up close. Check out this amazing collection of nanoscale images.
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Doug Feith : Hong Pong

For
better or worse (and mostly better) for these six weeks or so I've got
to do what the developers call 'refactoring' on a bunch of stuff in my
life & won't be able to churn out posts at a good clip until
probably early October. For more frequent updates see
https://twitter.com/hongpong - ...

UPDATE:
August 12 7AM: via two different DNS services it looks like the sites
are looking up correctly now. My net connection's pretty dodgy at the
moment but I think they are loading correctly now. It could have been a
temporary glitch - strange since other lookups were working correctly on
a t ...

BREAKING
NEWS PEOPLE - apparent #trapwire gov coverup in realtime!! it looks
like the government is scrubbing Suspicious Activity Report related GOV
sites and dumping their DNS entries. However the boxes are STILL ONLINE,
if you use /etc/hosts on osx/unix you can STILL get in and mirror the
file ...

///// 1AM August 7th update: http://hongpong.com/archives/2012/08/07/security-culture-danger-closed-o... /////
///// 1:40PM Sat August 4 update and correction below /////
Many Twin Cities activists working with the Occupy Homes MN group were surprised to hear that a national gathering committe ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

Source: Huffington Post The inspector general at the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission has launched an investigation into a GOP political appointee
for attempting to thwart an agency probe into safety concerns at a
Michigan plant, NRC insiders tell The Huffington Post. In late May, ...

Source: Huffington Post The inspector general at the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission has launched an investigation into a GOP political appointee
for attempting to thwart an agency probe into safety concerns at a
Michigan plant, NRC insiders tell The Huffington Post. In late May, ...

Source: The Atlantic Wire Authorities are winding down their criminal
investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the
lack of oversight and the loss of more than $1 billion in customer
funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal
ch...

Source: The Atlantic Wire Authorities are winding down their criminal
investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the
lack of oversight and the loss of more than $1 billion in customer
funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal
ch...

IntelNews

Government
officials in Moscow have denied knowledge of an alleged Russian spy
ring, which is accused by United States authorities of procuring
sensitive microelectronics technology on behalf of the Russian military.

Nearly
a year after the sensational death of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, sources
in Libya have claimed that a French intelligence agent killed the Libyan
leader acting under orders by the French government.

War is a Crime.org

By
Bahrain Freedom Movement
Two martyrs have been killed in one week; many more detained. This is
the pattern of events in occupied Bahrain. On Saturday 29th September
the Saudi-backed Alkhalifa forces shot a young boy with a shotgun,
causing him serious injuries, tortured him and executed him ...

The
presidential debate ignored the root causes of the present Depression:
Out of control military/industrial/political complex that spends more on
the military than all the other countries of the earth combined.
Allowing private banks to create our money supply out of thin air when
they loan u ...

By
Robert Naiman
Islamabad, Pakistan -- Sometimes, when some people insist that it's
impossible to put some urgent problem on the table for discussion and
redress, you have no choice but to undertake flamboyant action. Call it
"propaganda by nonviolent deed."
On Wednesday, as a member of a U.S.& ...

Grist - News

by Sarah Laskow.
Before reading further in this post, ask yourself a question (and
answer honestly): Which do you care about more, guiltless (if hungry)
goats or the Galápagos Islands' giant tortoises?
If you answered goats, this post will make you sad.
Here was the ...

by Sarah Laskow.
Orcas might be charismatic movie stars, but they are also killer
whales. A family of beachgoers in New Zealand caught on film an orca
fighting with a few sharks. One shark was so eager to get away from the
whale that it beached itself in the shallow water. (That's t ...

by Jess Zimmerman.
Stephen Colbert has officially thrown his hat in the ring for
definitely possibly considering a run for president. He's already
out-polling Jon Huntsman! So what kind of environmental policy platform
could we expect from a President Colbert?
Well, for starters, no ...

by Christopher Mims.
Some chemists came up with a really clever way to observe the
intermediate stage of an atmospheric chemical reaction, and then some PR
flack got a hold of it and suddenly science has invented a brand-new
molecule that will solve all our climate change woes! As usual, t ...

by Jess Zimmerman.
We here at Grist mock a lot of people. But we don't always manage to
mock some sense into them. Which is why we're pretty psyched about the
response to Sarah Laskow's feature story revealing that congressional
staffers were making deadly wildfires into a fun ...

Invisible Opportunity

Kevin
Hayden Source: Salem News There has been a concerted national effort by
citizens to have the US government label GMOs. Opposing it are
governments intent not only to keep them unlabeled in the US but efforts
at the international level by the US government to remove all labeling
of GMOs thr ...

by
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) There is a conspiracy of
oppression taking place right now against free speech about GMOs. Just
this week, YouTube censored a whistleblower video that exposed Whole
Foods employees lying about the fact that Whole Foods sells masses of
genetically mo ...

By
Egoigwe Announcing his success at a 2001 press conference, the
president of Epicyte, Mitch Hein, pointing to his GMO corn plants,
announced, “We have a hothouse filled with corn plants that make
anti-sperm antibodies.” Hein explained that they had taken antibodies
from women with a rare condi ...

By
Mark Weisbrot October 04, 2012 “The Guardian” – - On 30 May, Dan
Rather, one of America’s best-known journalists, announced that
Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez would die “in a couple of months at
most”. Four months later Chávez is not only alive and campa ...

Lisa
Garber Activist Post Russian researchers will stream a live experiment
to show the effects of GMO feed on rats. This comes after a French study
found GMOs to have negative effects on rats, which lead to a
provisional Russian suspension on imported Monsanto genetically modified
corn. Russian ...

On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a
huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four
giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or
commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia
Guidestones, or the ...

THE
CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys
upstairs")
We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the
Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has
not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to
pu ...

In
his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision
of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban
growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course
of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history
plus eye-op ...

Dear
Friends,
Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative
materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead
and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for
those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

Whether
we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the
possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their
trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading
Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute
the air ...

US
Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days
after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well?
Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York
Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...

Unlike
the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit
more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to
Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and
biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable
(read: cryable ...

Inhabitat

The
green energy race just got kicked up a notch with the latest offering
from Vestas. The Vestas V-164 is the world’s largest and most powerful
wind turbine, and each of its three blades measures 262 feet in length.
To put that into perspective, that means each blade is the same height
as ...

Mars
image from Shutterstock Engineers at NASA’s Synthetic Biology
Initiative are creating the building blocks of life – or rather, using
life to create building blocks. Instead of shipping construction
materials for a theoretical base on Mars, scientists are developing
microbes capa ...

Screenshot
from The Junk King by Evan Burns A Texan man named Vince Hannemann has
been collecting other people’s junk in his backyard since 1989. Over the
past several years, he has constructed a massive “Cathedral of Junk”,
much to the amusement and fascination of locals &#821 ...

The
University of Brighton just began construction on the UK’s first
building made completely of waste. Designed by local architect Duncan
Baker-Brown, the structure will be composed of excess building materials
from city construction sites and other area industries. The design team
plans ...

Pogue's Posts

David
Pogue says he'll still ask Siri to "read my messages" while his
attention is on the road. Yes, of course, any kind of distraction is
worse than none. But hearing one sentence read aloud seems to be the
least of our automotive distractions, he says.

Whatever
the story, the Apple chief's apology for the condition of the new maps
app conveys a note of humility that has been missing so far. Without it,
the Apple Maps fiasco felt even worse than it was.

Nobody
ever raved about Google's mapping app for phones until they saw how
hard it was for Apple to come up with a rival. Conversations with
executives at Google make clear that the company's maps represent years
and years of hand-tuning and manual effort.

WIRED Magazine | Science

Catch
a lovely celestial event as the second and fourth brightest objects in
the sky meet up during a conjunction of the waning moon with Jupiter.
Live telescope views of both objects will come courtesy of the Slooh
space camera beginning at 7 p.m. Pacific/10 p.m. Eastern.

Want
baby mice? Grab a petri dish. After producing normal mouse pups last
year using sperm derived from stem cells, a Kyoto University team of
researchers has now accomplished the same feat using eggs created the
same way. The study may eventually lead to new ways of helping infertile
couples co ...

Getting
to one of our nearest neighbours, Mars, would take six to eight months
using conventional spaceship engines. Ideas like warp drives are still
theoretical, and unlikely to be seen within our lifetimes. However, it
might be possible to cut that trip to Mars down to as few as three
months u ...

Controversy
is brewing over the Georgia Aquarium's plan to import 18 beluga whales
captured off the coast of Russia. According to the aquarium, the whales
are needed for research and education. According to animal welfare
advocates, that doesn't justify the harm inflicted on intelligent,
emotion ...

If
you're like us, you could look at photos of galaxies, planets, moons
and nebulas all day. But you don't have all day, so let Wired Science
bring you the most intriguing, beautiful or mysterious view of space we
can find. We promise they will be mind-blowing and tempt you to replace
your deskt ...

PakAlert

The
Turkish Parliament has "authorized military operations" against Syria.
So exactly what does that mean? Did Turkey just declare war on Syria?
For now, the government of Turkey is making a clear distinction between
"military operations" and "declaring war". If Turkey were to "declare
war" ...

These
are some warning signs that that you have turned into a terrorist who
will soon kill your co-workers, according to the U.S. military. You’ve
recently changed your “choices in entertainment.” You have “peculiar
discussions.” You “complain about bias,” you’re “socially withdrawn” and
you’re ...

A
network of 77 "fusion" intelligence centers, set up around the country
under the auspices of the federal Department of Homeland Security, has
over the past decade uncovered little information that could be useful
in defending the nation against terrorism. It also created numerous
reports on th ...

Syria’s
mortar attack that killed civilians inside Turkey will prove to be the
final domino to fall in a coordinated effort to take down both Syria and
Iran. It is part of a not-so covert war started more than five years
ago following the invasion of Iraq and the occupation of Afghanistan.
A ...

"The
squeeze is on, and people are doing desperate things," is how one
independent described the situation in California. As Bloomberg reports,
a shortage of supply along with drastically higher wholesale prices of
gasoline has caused 'mom-and-pop' gas stations to close down as their
margins are ...

Andy Worthington

At
Dusk: The Regent’s Canal from Camden Lock to St. Pancras Basin, a set
on Flickr. Out of London’s many attractions, its wonderful canals are
relatively unknown, which is, to be honest, inexplicable, as they are an
endlessly fascinating — and generally very soothing — an ...

On
Friday (October 5), I’m heading to Sheffield, in the company of my
friend — and former Guantánamo prisoner — Omar Deghayes, to take part in
a conference at Sheffield University, entitled, “Confronting US Power
after the Vietnam War: Transnational and International Pers ...

Alternative
London: Camden High Street, a set on Flickr. This is the 38th set of
photos in my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike,
and follows on from the previous set, recording a journey from Tottenham
Court Road and up Hampstead Road to Mornington Crescent on September 3
...

I
wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I
established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us —
just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to
the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our
activities by ...

Last
Monday, the long struggle of five alleged “terror suspects” against
their extradition to the US — under the much-criticised US-UK
Extradition Treaty of 2003 — was struck an apparently fatal blow when
the European Court of Human Rights refused to hear an appeal they h ...

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

The
ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill
industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them
accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of
this nation:
Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...

Is
this a parody or real life? You decide.
Citizens of New Milford:
I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week,
seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't
be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis.
That's why ...

The
conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to
move a dangerous right wing agenda.
They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big
surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members)
were slaughtered in the 2010 elections.
So f ...

Sober
up, Dems.
You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since
2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even
nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp!
And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive,
leftie ass off. Y ...

So.
What the heck happened last night?
The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their
losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to
them.
The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party
retains control there.
The GOP picked u ...

SPL Center

Jean
Philippe Rushton, a psychology professor and probably the most
important race scientist in North America, died of cancer Tuesday night
in Canada. The man who sparked a firestorm of controversy and protest in
the late 1980s with his theories about the correlation between genital
size and int ...

Muslims
and their places of worship “are clearly under attack,” says the
president of one of the country’s largest mosques, which was heavily
damaged four days ago in an arson fire.
“We’re actually reeling in disbelief,” Dr. Mahjabeen Islam, president of
the Islamic Center of Toledo in Ohio, tol ...

In
the end, despite a lot of anticipatory huffing and puffing by backers
and their far more numerous opponents, the event was a low-key one. The
controversial “race realist” Jared Taylor — a man who has argued that
black people are incapable of sustaining civilization — spoke without
incident in ...

In
the end, despite a lot of anticipatory huffing and puffing by backers
and their far more numerous opponents, the event was a low-key one. The
controversial “race realist” Jared Taylor — a man who has argued that
black people are incapable of sustaining civilization — spoke without
incident in ...

The
headline is sensational and does what headlines are supposed to do – it
grabs your attention:
“California Bans Heterosexuality.”
After my initial shock, I settled down and read the story under the
headline and quickly learned, to my great relief, that the Golden State
hasn’t really banned he ...

change: org.

A
haunting but ultimately uplifting story out of New Mexico has been
making the rounds in newspapers and TV reports across the country. A
6-year-old girl in Albuquerque was abducted as she walked home on a
suburban street. The kidnapper pulled her into his van, parked near a
rock hiding packing ...

In
late June, a vital bill to support rape survivors landed on New Jersey
Governor Chris Christie's desk. The bill, which had strong bipartisan
support in both legislative houses, was to bar rape survivors from being
charged for their own rape kits -- collections of forensic evidence
after a sex ...

The
shock and grief over a young person's tragic death can be paralyzing.
Not for Kimiko Nishitsuji.
Her friend's sudden death last month after being hit by a car at an
intersection long known to be dangerous for pedestrians instead spurred
her to action and mobilized a community. Kimiko created ...

Wow.
Just weeks ago, UCLA graduate and award-winning Dreamer David Cho
posted a petition on Change.org commemorating the ten-year anniversary
of the federal DREAM Act and asking President Obama and the US
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to do everything in their power to
stop deporting tal ...

Robert
Segwanyi was scheduled for deportation on August 18, from the United
Kingdom's Heathrow airport. The UK was sending Robert back to Uganda,
where he was tortured with molten plastic and imprisoned for being gay.
Robert was spared from deportation at the very last minute according to
...

Common Dreams -News

Thousands
of students clashed with riot police Friday in protest of deep cuts to
education. "Save schools, not banks," students chanted referencing the
government's austerity measures which, they say, are destroying their
chances of getting a good education and valuable work.
...

Ten
members of New York's Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones and End
the Wars protesting the U.S. use of drone aircraft were arrested this
morning at the gate of the Air National Guard's Hancock Field in DeWitt,
New York. The demonstration was timed to coincide with the march in
Wazi ...

US
Congressman Richard Hanna (R-NY) was seemingly displeased when he
learned that a local television station in his district (the NY 22nd)
was planning to air a debate he had refused to attend by allowing his
challenger, Democrat Dan Lamb, to debate an empty chair.
So what did Hanna do to rectif ...

Shel
Adelson, the eighth richest man in the US, has found a solution to
Spain's economic woes. The Las Vegas Sands casino mogul and infamous
Republican donor has proposed to build "EuroVegas," a $35 billion
megacity that will include 36,000 hotel rooms, 18,000 slot machines, six
ca ...

So you've ergonomically optimized your workspace, but your wrist
is still having some trouble working that mouse. If your wrist pain
just won't seem to go away, try a vertical mouse that completely changes
your stance. More »

It's apple season and there are more than fifteen varieties of
apples to choose from for your eating, cooking, drinking, and craft
needs. What's the best apple for eating, bobbing, or pie-making? This
flowchart can help you pick the right kind. More »

Thanks to online outsourcing services and delivery subscriptions,
such as TaskRabbit and Amazon Subscribe & Save, you can offload
almost all of your tedious or time-consuming tasks. But is it worth it?
This infographic from password manager Dashlane can help you decide and
find options for ...

Water Privatization

The
Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) will establish three new
solar-powered desalination plants, said Abdul Rahman Al-Ibrahim,
governor of the corporation. “We are reducing dependence on oil and
using alternative energy sources to run our plants,” he added. Two
solar-powered desalinati ...

The
battle over the privatization of public water services is playing out
in Detroit, as water department workers now risk losing their jobs as
they continue a strike over what they see as a "union busting and
privatizing" plan by the city. read more

The
Associated Press - DETROIT (AP) — Detroit officials are heading to
court to halt a strike by water and sewer department workers who walked
off their jobs with the system, which serves about 4 million Southeast
Michigan residents.

Guardian

Director
general George Entwistle rules out internal inquiry, while Met police
says it is 'collating information'The BBC's new director general, George
Entwistle, broke his six-day silence over the Sir Jimmy Savile abuse
allegations to say he was appalled by the torrent of revelations from
victi ...

Director
general George Entwistle rules out internal inquiry, while Met police
says it is 'collating information'The BBC's new director general, George
Entwistle, broke his six-day silence over the Sir Jimmy Savile abuse
allegations to say he was appalled by the torrent of revelations from
victi ...

David
Cameron accused of failing to modernise the Conservatives by director
of Policy Exchange, Neil O'BrienDavid Cameron has failed to end the
Tories' image as the party of the rich and is paying the price as
Conservatives struggle to extend their appeal to urban areas in the
north of England, ...

Police
looking for the missing five-year-old say they no longer expect to find
her alivePolice investigating the disappearance of April Jones have
narrowed their search to a smaller number of locations after accepting
that they no longer expect to find the five-year-old alive. A murder
inquiry h ...

Kate
Mingay, one of three suspended officials, says department has portrayed
her role inaccuratelyThe row over the scapegoating of civil servants in
the west coast franchising fiasco has intensified as one of the three
suspended officials hit out at her own department for "inaccurately
portrayin ...

McClatchey

For
months, staunch conservatives repeated the same mantra: We?ll vote for
Mitt Romney, but we?re not crazy about him. That?s all changed. Thanks
to his aggressive performance in Wednesday?s debate,Click to Continue »

The
federal budget deficit dipped slightly to $1.1 trillion in fiscal 2012,
the 12 month period that ended Sept. 30, according to a report released
Friday by the nonpartisan Congressional…Click to Continue »

A
suspected radical Muslim preacher and four alleged other terrorists
approved for extradition to the United States on Friday will not be
going to the prison camps at Guantánamo under…Click to Continue »

Futurismic

Perhaps
it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the
US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year
politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest.
Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time
I did a ...

I
get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects.
Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less
about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema.
Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of
pr ...

So,
I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to
approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around
accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency;
hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the
full exchange. (Em ...

Soooooo,
yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree…
doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet
here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a
mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...

Last
month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy
Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative
destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that
incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within,
incessantly destroying ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

The
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Office of the Whistleblower
has today issued seven (7) new Notices of Covered Actions. Each of
these notices is an opportunity for any whistleblowers to file a
claim. If a whistleblower believes that his or her information
contribute ...

Tune
in today at 5:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio
Network.
In the first half hour, Richard Renner interviews Arizona attorney
Vikram Badrinath about his recent amicus brief to the Board of
Immigration Appeals. Writing on behalf of the American Immigration
Lawyers Associat ...

Today,
the National Whistleblowers Center and the No FEAR Coalition announced
their support for the immediate passage of the Whistleblower Protection
Enhancement Act (WPEA) for federal employee whistleblowers. The
decision to support the Senate version (S. 743) of the WPEA came after
the S ...

By Guest Columnist: Donna Boehme
Principal at Compliance Strategists LLC and editor of the weekly CS
Newsflash (and former chief compliance and ethics officer at two leading
multinationals). Follow her on Twitter @DonnaCBoehme.
Originally Published in Corporate Counsel (Septe ...

The
Zinn Education Project is sponsoring State Out of the Union, a
performance about civil rights, immigration and education, this
Wednesday, September 26, 2012, at Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW,
Washington, DC (at V St.; use U St. Metrorail station). The performance
features author Jeff B ...

Science Express

(PhysOrg.com)
-- The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side
effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the
stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by
scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides
additiona ...

Supermassive
black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge
growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new
study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii.
Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.

A
team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other
institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus
that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure
reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses
common in the early 20 ...

(PhysOrg.com)
-- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an
interesting choice when deciding which males should father their
offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then
produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with
spe ...

TechDirt

Update:
As explained in the comments, this is actually a different license than
the copyright collection society license -- which still needs to be
paid. This is merely a form of a business operating license in order to
have live music. Yes, apparently you needed special separate license
to h ...

Earlier
this week, YouTube made some news for changing the way its ContentID
program works, including improving the appeals process. Among the
improvements was one in which more "borderline" cases that ContentID
matched, but without as high confidence that it was definitely
infringing, would go ...

It's
amazing how frequently we see stories of copyright being used as
censorship -- even in cases where the copyright claims are obviously
bogus. Being on the receiving end of a threat is no fun, and it's not
surprising that many people choose to cave in, rather than fight. Back
in early 2011, ...

TasMot
points us to a recent blog post by Jacques Mattheij, who developed one
of the earliest, if not the earliest version of browser-based streaming
video back in 1995, about his experience with patent trolls. There's an
initial experience with an attempt by patent trolling giant Acacia to
try ...

We've
been arguing this for years, but the best and so far only way that's
been shown to effectively deal with the "challenge" of piracy is to
figure out ways to compete against it. We've highlighted this point for
quite some time, but people still try to argue against it. However,
the evidenc ...

VacTruth

Does
anyone know what our presidential candidates’ plans are for dealing
with the autism epidemic in this country? Does anyone know what their
policies are regarding vaccines? Few people can say yes to either of
these questions.

A
parent who wishes to remain anonymous writes: “Hello, I was wondering
if the eye drops and vitamin k shot are mandatory in Michigan? Also, I
have read women take nettle leaf a few weeks before giving birth to
boost vitamin k levels. Does anyone know what kind of nettle leaf to
take becau ...

CJ
asks… “I was wondering if you had any information about Synagis. It
seems to me that it is a vaccine (given once a month during cold/flu
season) that supposedly helps prevent RSV. I believe RSV is just a scary
way to describe a common cold. My daughter has a myriad of problems, in
...

A
parent named Tasha is wondering: “My husband and I are missionaries,
going to Africa. Because of the higher risks in country, we are required
to vaccinate our daughter. Based on information we have found, most
illnesses we vaccinate for are curable with access to medication and
good heal ...

Yet
again the UK government has allowed a previously banned and dangerous
vaccine onto the UK market, by repackaging it and giving it a new name
in a bid to deceive parents. The first time the UK government tried this
tactic and succeeded was in 1988 when the JCVI (Joint Committee on
Vaccination ...

BroadSnark

Follow
CD on his quest for medical marijuana. Feminists shrunk Rush Limbaugh’s
penis. (Typing “Rush Limbaugh’s penis” just made me retch.) Ladies, if
you do exactly the opposite of these tips for single women circa 1938,
you too can stay happily unmarried. Are too strong ...

By
now you have probably read, or at least heard about, Rebecca Solnit’s
piece on TomDispatch titled The Rain on Our Parade. Salon republished it
as Hey left wing: Quit griping. Solnit is frustrated that us radicals
are constant Debbie Downers who do nothing but bitch and moan. We can
neve ...

Not
much time for news and blogs this week, but there is lots of stuff
coming up. If any of you are in the DC area, come by and say hello.
Thursday Justice Policy Institute is having a panel discussion about The
High Price of Bail at the Busboys and Poets on 5th and K. There [...]

Somehow
my last post on mental illness ended up in a Facebook discussion about
love. Well, I know how it happened. My friend asked if love was a mental
illness and informed me that cocaine and love release the same
chemicals in the brain. This is an intense question for a hungover
Monday morning ...

Make
a claim that one snort of cocaine makes you irredeemably insane and
people will line up behind laws that lock cocaine users up for life. But
read that 73% of incarcerated women have mental health issues and many
of those same people will find it a compelling argument against mass
incarcerat ...

War in Context

Visit
NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
NBC News reports: Dozens of anti-drone activists have traveled to
Pakistan to join a march to the country’s tribal areas, where more than
300 strikes have killed thousands of people in the last eight years. The
32 ...

The
New York Times reports: With harsh economic sanctions contributing to
the first major protests in Iran in three years, Iranian officials have
begun to describe what they call a “nine-step plan” to defuse the
nuclear crisis with the West by gradually suspending the production of
the uranium t ...

The
New York Times reports: Syrian government warplanes and artillery were
reported on Friday to have launched a ferocious barrage against the
central city of Homs while, near the capital, Damascus, rebels said they
captured an air defense base with a cache of surface-to-air missiles.
The fighti ...

Watts Up With That?

People
send me stuff. A couple of days ago this arrived in my inbox. – Anthony
The Gender-Neutral Kitten Salvation Happiness Fund Brytni Ambyr is out
to save the gender-neutral kittens of the world from abuse by global
warming through … Continue reading →

There
are so many updates and fixes needed to the climate models these days
its almost like watching a car undergoing a perpetual repair process.
When does the time come when the owners realize that maybe they should
take advantage … Continue reading →

From
the Institute of Physics , a surprising study being published by them,
which not only measures the increase, but now has provided labels for
type1 through type 3 skeptics. It seems they really don’t understand,
but they are trying … Continue reading →

Playing
email hidey-ho in Hansenland to circumvent FOI laws Guest post by Chris
Horner That political appointees and career activists in government
would use private computers is in keeping with tactics I have uncovered
as being epidemic in government, and … Continue reading →

Biosingularity

Working
together can hasten brain evolution, according to a new computer
simulation. When programmed to navigate challenging cooperative tasks,
the artificial neural networks set up by scientists to serve as
mini-brains “learned” to work together, evolving the virtual equivalent
of b ...

Brain
tumors and head trauma, including concussions, can elevate pressure
inside the skull, potentially crushing brain tissue or cutting off the
brain’s blood supply. Monitoring pressure in the brains of such patients
could help doctors determine the best treatment, but the procedure is
so invas ...

Pregnant
women might now have one more good reason to watch their diet and
exercise: A new study links autism and developmental delays in young
children to metabolic conditions, like obesity and diabetes, in their
mothers. The findings, published in Monday’s edition of the journal
Pediatri ...

Killing
harmful bacteria in hospitals is difficult; out in the field, it can be
an even bigger problem. Now, researchers may have a means for remote
disinfection in a portable “flashlight” that shines a ray of cold plasma
to kill bacteria in minutes. Medical scientists have high hope ...

The
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave the O.K. last Friday to a
new radioactive dye that helps doctors scan the brain for Alzheimer’s
disease. The dye, called Amyvid (florbetapir), made by Eli Lilly &
Co., binds to the sticky amyloid proteins that build up in the brains of
patient ...

CFACT

President
Obamaâ€™s â€œnewâ€ proposal is Plan B, since cap-and-trade failed in
Congress. The President is not â€œmoving to the middle.â€ Instead he is
playing bait-and-switch. Either cap-and-trade or â€ ...

US
Olympic short-track speedskater Simon Cho admitted publicly Friday that
he tampered with a Canadian skater’s blades at the World Team
Championships in Poland last year, and said he was pressured to do so by
his coach, Jae Su Chun.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Belarus
should create a regulatory system covering the construction and
operation of its first nuclear power plant, said International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA) expert Donald Kovacic in Minsk on Friday.

Five
international microsatellites CubeSat are scheduled to be launched on
Thursday from the International Space Station (ISS) following a
week-long delay of technical errors, a spokesman for the Russian Mission
Control said.

Eleven
members of an alleged secret Russian military procurement network have
been charged in the United States with illegally shipping sophisticated
microelectronics to Russian military and intelligence agencies,
according to a federal indictment unsealed in US District Court on
Wednesday.

Pruning Shears

The
NFL’s lockout of union referees, which began in June and ended today,
is just one of several recent examples that serve to illustrate how
little regard Americans give to labor and the treatment of workers.
This phenomenon is found not just among the likes of rightwing
union-buste ...

From
here. Roughly from 2:36-4:50.Q: He didn’t tell you what he thought?
There would be any risk associated with it?A: He said it was, trying to
think of his exact words, symbolic. A lot of what you’re saying is
symbolic, because we still have the Ohio Revised Code we have to follow.
...

The
trustee meeting I attended Tuesday actually began over hundred years
ago. In 1910 Ohio voters approved the calling of a constitutional
convention, and in 1912 a whole series of amendments were adopted. The
Ohio History Central link goes to a short but very good summary, and
it’s defi ...

On
Wednesday communities held Freedom From Toxic Fracking Waste rallies to
raise awareness on one of the largest environmental risks from
fracking: dealing with the waste it produces. In the best case scenario
the toxic stew - of unknown composition due to the Halliburton Loophole
- is removed ...

The
fracking industry has dramatically increased its activity in Portage
county recently. In some cases the activity is unmistakably tangible
(more on that next week), but the real action at the moment seems to be
preparing the ground for the deluge. The paperwork is coming in fast
and furious ...

Fast
food company Chipotle has signed a fair food agreement with the
Coalition of Immokalee Workers Thursday, marking a victory for the group
and a positive step in the food justice movement.Click here to read
this article

The
first in an upcoming series of mini-documentary videos about GMOs, this
Gary Null production delves into the reality of GMO health risks. Gary
Null calls it a "GMO ticking time bomb." Click here to read this
article

Center for a Livable Future

The
frightening truth is that climate change and food supply are intimately
linked, and as the weather events in this country and around the world
become more extreme, so will our struggle to feed ourselves.

My Care2 Picks

Canadian
researchers have concluded that H1N1 flu shot is more dangerous than
the flu. The studys release coincided with North America and certain
parts of Europe preparing to promote massive vaccination efforts. Shot
caused more physiological issues
Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellne ...

We
actually deal with the Mideast, Latin America, the Atlantic Region,
Eastern Europe, NE Asia, and SE Asia as if we were still living in the
WW-II era : we deal with the Mideast, Latin America, the Atlantic
Region, Eastern Europe, NE Asia, separately
Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics &a ...

I had just been told that my daughter was raped. I glance toward the
door. I feel drunk, as if my legs cant hold my weight. I grasp the
window sill and push my forehead against the window. I need air. I gasp,
choking on the silent scream that sticks
Submitted by joseph m. to Society & Cult ...

In
a recent interview prominent green activist Bill McKibben declared that
fossil fuel barons are taking away the future and must therefore be
stopped Those of us who regard affordable energy as a golden ticket out
of drudgery marvel
Submitted by John Farnham to Green Lifestyle | &n ...

When
it’s time to renew your home insurance policy, make the time to go over
the details. Understanding the nuances in the fine print can save you
money. It is up to you to decide if money today is...
[[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Today
sushi is associated with a global trend as well as a Japanese food
tradition. Not all countries’ traditional dishes are welcomed that
eagerly by the rest of the world, like lutefisk from Norway...
[[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Few
decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major
schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were
surprised at the numerous opportunities they were...
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As
the popularity of online higher education continues to grow, a younger
group of students has noticed the convenience of online learning. Online
courses are a realistic option for young students...
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To
amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Federal Meat
Inspection Act, and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to require that
food that contains a genetically engineered material, or that is
produced with a genetically engineered material, be labeled accordingly.
This bill is a re- ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

ShareThisGeneral:
'My Career Was Done' When I Criticized Flawed Warplane 04 Oct 2012 Don
Harvel thought he was cruising to a well-deserved retirement after 35
years flying cargo planes for the U.S. Air Force. Then in the spring of
2010 he was tapped to investigate the fatal crash of a high-tech ...

ShareThisUS
wants to see Syria, Turkey going to war: Iran cmdr. 05 Oct 2012 A
senior Iranian military commander says Syria and Turkey should realize
that the United States wants a war between the two Muslim countries.
"This war is what the US wants and the officials of the two countries
[Syria a ...

ShareThisJobless
Rate Falls to 7.8%, Lowest Since January 2009 06 Oct 2012 The nation's
unemployment rate dropped sharply to 7.8 percent in September, its
lowest level since the month President Obama took office, the Labor
Department said Friday. While employers added only a modest 114,000 jobs
...

ShareThis8
rockets hit US Bagram air base in Afghanistan 05 Oct 2012 At least
eight rockets have hit the Bagram air base near the Afghan capital of
Kabul, the main US base in the war-ravaged country, Press TV reports.

Daily Loaf

I
like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books
that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you
may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet,
here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]

Victory
Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown,
Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market. With such
beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory
has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the
United States. St ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

‘Poliomyelitis
(polio) is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. It invades
the nervous system, and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours.
It can strike at any age, but affects mainly children under three
(over 50 percent of all cases). The virus enters the body throug ...

We
are currently entering the next phase in the Globalist plan to erode
the bedrock of natural immunity amongst the general population, a
race to gain complete control over our inherent right to
self-determination of the body. Based on all my research thus [...]

The
road-map leading to most neurological & neuro-developmental
disorders traces back to the earliest vaccines administered to babies
(HEP B, DTaP, PCV, RV, HIB, IPV, MMR). Timing is the key – a premature
breach of the delicate, under-developed “electrical grid network”
designed to prot ...

The
Flu Vaccine deception ranks as one of the great cover-ups &
swindles of the last century perpetrated against the general
population. Not only has the public been systematically lied to by their
elected Government for generations (in league with the World Health
Organization & a Vacc ...

Article
continued from VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – Detoxification
& Restoration of The Body
Replenishing the vital mineral base
We must look to children with Autism to determine the full extent of
“vaccine toxicity” derived nutrient deficiencies incurred in th ...

B.C. Preppers Network

A
few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG
washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them.
The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a
Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set. A cute little
luxur ...

Today
a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new
thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. If
you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the
Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air
conditi ...

After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I
decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted
our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on
the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also
installed a new ...

Our
family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do
once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old
daughter realize where food comes from.
While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around
the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...

I
received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which
claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm,
or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right?
Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what
might be a good deal fo ...

03
October 2012
Face of our Broken Army, and the Taliban's Best Friend
Grisham contacted a lawyer today, who contacted me. This must be
hitting home. So let’s keep exposing what has gone wrong with our Army.
General (ret.) Barry McCaffrey warned us many times over the years that w
...

03
October 2012
U.S. Department of Defense
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)
News Release
Marines Missing in Action from WWII Identified
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced
today that the remains of seven servicemen, missing i ...

03 October 2012
Please See This Interesting Website
Today's installment: Shipborne IEDs
Standing Well Back
thoughts on terrorist developments
Big IEDs in Ships
Written by: Roger Davies
As promised, a quick “connections’ commentary on some pretty remarkable IEDs on ships and boa ...

02
October 2012
Brigadier General Jeffrey Sinclair recently was sent home from Kandahar
Airfield, Afghanistan. Sinclair was charged by our own military with
forcible sodomy (rape), inappropriate sexual relations with several
female subordinates, multiple counts of adultery, stealing gov ...

While
these aren't the worst things in the world, a couple of things from the
world of information and journalism that were surprising enough to me,
even though I think I ought to be pretty hardened to these things by
now.
(1)
Through Wikileaks' twitter feed, I saw this story about one of the fo
...

Hi
everyone,
In case you didn't notice the new tab above, my first book, Haiti's New
Dictatorship, is set to come out at the end of October.
I will be doing talks about the book all over Canada and probably in NYC
in the US as well. Check the book tab for updates on the book tour.
It's in the p ...

Hello
friends. We at En Camino put this together and it has gathered
signatures since the coup. We are hoping to work together to find ways
to support FDD in the coming weeks and months. -Justin
-------
The undersigning organizations, collectives and individuals working
towards a coordinated ini ...

Jurist - Legal Research

[JURIST]
The Mannheim Regional Court in Germany ruled for Motorola Mobility, a
subsidiary of Google, against Microsoft [corporate websites] on Friday.
This was the fourth decision [FOSS Patents report] in a suit between
Motorola and Microsoft to be issued this year, all of which were
countersuit ...

[JURIST]
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
[official website] on Friday condemned [press release] a draft law [bill
8711 materials, in Ukrainian] that would ban pro-gay "propaganda" in
Ukraine. The OHCHR said that the bill would be open to abuse and that it
violates ...

[JURIST]
The Queen's Bench Division [official website] on the High Court of
England and Wales ruled Friday that three elderly Kenyans can sue the
British government for torture they suffered while in detention under
the British Colonial Administration in the 1950s. Judge Richard McCombe
ruled th ...

[JURIST]
The High Court of England and Wales on Friday approved the extradition
of five terror suspects to the US. The court's decision comes a week
after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] gave
its final approval of the extradition, which it had initially approved
[JUR ...

[JURIST]
The High Court of Australia [official website] on Friday published its
reasons [text, PDF] for dismissing a lawsuit brought by several large
international tobacco companies challenging the labeling requirements of
the Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 (TPP Act) [materials]. The court
ori ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

Twitter
is on fire, and Joe Lieberman merely the kindle. The Netroots left -- a
variegated slice of the Democratic base -- is livid about health care
reform. The fire has been slow burning for months, expressing itself in
frustration, firstly, with the congressional leadership, and secondl
...

Resurgent
Republic, the GOP strategy/polling consortium, has been finding, in
surveys, a trend among folks over 55 that quite concerns Democrats --
because they're seeing the same thing. Since April, older whites have
not only been venting their frustration at Congress, they've been
increasingly ...

Confirming
rumors, California gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner announced
today he's donating $15 million to his own campaign because he wants to
"communicate my message of bold 10% tax cuts, a 10% reduction in state
spending, creating a $10 billion rainy day fund, and I will cut our
welfare ...

For
progressives, with his latest Hamleting on health care reform, Sen. Joe
Lieberman has officially transitioned from his status as the Senate's
Lucy-Pulling-The-Ball-Away to a guy who, in the words of CAP's Matthew
Yglesias, demonstrates "sociopathic indifference to the human cost" of
his acti ...

Tikun Olam

One
of the more popular memes Jewish triumphalists use to prove
religious-ethnic superiority is how many Nobel Prizes have Jewish names
attached to them. This supports the claim of genetic and racial
superiority of Jewish DNA, I presume. Pro-Israel advocates use the same
technique to pump up t ...

Reuters
reports that foreign cyber-attacks have decimated internet traffic
within Iran. My own Israeli source tells me that these were mounted by a
joint Israeli-U.S. cyberwar operation designed to ratchet up pressure
on the country in combination with the ongoing currency crisis which is
rende ...

Until
today, the notion that Aipac wanted a war against Iran seemed
plausible, but there was no smoking gun. There is now. This month, the
Washington Institute for Near East Policy (its slogan: “ideas, action,
impact” appears apt considering the subject of this post), a pro-Israel t
...

Israeli
and western media are filled with stories about the collapse of Iran’s
currency over the past week. The articles contain a strong element of
Schadenfreude, gloating at the suffering of others. Specifically when
those others are the Iranian “enemy.” But are they? Mor ...

One
of Bibi Netanyahu’s erstwhile buddies, U.S. businessman and World
Jewish Congress leader Ron Lauder, called a unilateral attack on Iran
without U.S. support a “catastrophe” during an interview with Der
Spiegel. Here’s the translation of his comments as offered by Kol ...

If Americans Knew

On
March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie was killed by Israeli soldiers driving a
bulldozer. Please help us keep Rachel's memory and message alive! Order
materials to distribute to your friends, family, neighbors, and
community.

Recent
exposes revealing that Ethan Bronner, the New York Times
Israel-Palestine bureau chief, has a son in the Israeli military have
caused a storm of controversy that continues to swirl and generate
further revelations.

With
President Obama's Middle East peace plans so completely -- and
humiliatingly -- shipwrecked on the rocks of Israeli intransigence, it's
time for him to consider a new approach, at least if he's serious about
his announced objectives. In the spirit of bipartisanship that he's so
dedicated to ...

It's
interesting to find myself a small factor in the California race for
the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. But before I get to that,
it's necessary to take a look at the campaigns themselves, and the
system in which they're running.

The
First Intifada was a grassroots uprising against Israel's occupation of
the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Intifada is an Arabic
word for "civil uprising" that literally means "shaking off."

David J. Gregory

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As our private area grows with more and more data, it becomes more and
more desirable. A donation will give you access to this area where not
only will you ...

Big
news. President Obama is threatening to veto CISPA, the bill that could
give the government and big companies limitless powers to spy on us
online. The President has folded on a lot of things in the past, but
finally, yes finally, there is hope, the tide maybe changing, from the
GOP Corporat ...

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Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in
Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction
books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...

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EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book,
63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...

As
a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional
committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports
that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American
people have been very clear. They understand how important Social
Security, Med ...

Unsuitable Blog

The
Unsuitablog contains a huge range of posts from simple criticism to
investigation to downright in-your-face sabotage. It also has heaps of
advice on how to recognise and expose greenwash and the entire series of
Monthly Undermining Tasks which helped the book Underminers become a
reality. To ...

Four
years, and it feels like it. It would take a book to tell the story of
The Unsuitablog: all the work that has gone into it; the sleepless
nights wondering whether a stunt would come off or what the
repercussions of an exposure would be; the arm-aching pixel manipulation
in creating the hund ...

On
Monday 5th December, 2011, Bill McKibben, author and figurehead-leader
of 350.org wrote the following in the Daily Kos: You think OWS is
radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil
disobedience in DC in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We’re not
radical. Radica ...

There
is going to be a strike in Britain on Wednesday. The UK Government are
condemning it. This is starting to appear all over Facebook: When the
government decide we can have a day off for the royal wedding it doesn’t
damage the economy, but when the workers decide to strike for a day it
...

It
seems there is no depth to which the corporate world’s own favourite
NGO, WWF, will not sink. An article in this week’s Guardian was happy to
give WWF some free publicity, implying that the group actually give a
stuff about the wildlife they were apparently set up to protect (or s
...

Over
the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: “When a Muslim
commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility.
When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.” I wasn’t
commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to de
...

Rep.
Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American
Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t
cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax
dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and
urgent issue of ...

One
of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be
that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as
members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them.
Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East
Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...

The
Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg – one of the key proponents of the
disastrous invasion of Iraq – has some serious misgivings about the
fledgling pro-democracy movement that’s taken over the streets of Egypt.
“I support democratization, but,” he cautions, “the democratization we
saw in Gaza (cour ...

Idea Lab | Technology

It's
Social Media Week this week, and in recognition of this and our seventh
anniversary next month, we'd like to reflect on the role that social
media has played in the history and development of FrontlineSMS.
'Democratization of Development'
In a recent BBC Future article, I wrote about ...

A
few months ago, we became the largest crowdsourced journalism project
in Latvia to date. We reached 2% of the general population and gathered
unique data. However, to generate the data and launch the survey we had
to program, design and test the system for weeks and invest several
thousand dol ...

Version
0.4 of The State Decoded was just tagged on GitHub and bundled up for
download, the result of six weeks of work. The State Decoded is a
platform that displays state codes, court decisions, and information
from legislative tracking services to make it all more understandable to
normal hum ...

Now
that PANDA has been out in the world for a while, we would like to
suggest you also take a look at a "cousin" project of sorts: csvkit.
csvkit is a suite of powertools for working with Comma-separated values
(CSV) files. It's a command line toolkit, so you will need some minimal
technical kn ...

OKFestival,
the world's largest open knowledge and data event, will take place
September 17-22. We're pleased to announce that streams on three whole
days of this year's festival (two festival days and a satellite event)
will be dedicated to the topic of data journalism and visualization to
enco ...

Cutting Edge News

Both
the Obama administration and Iranâ€™s President Ahmadinejad have blamed
the recent dramatic fall in value of Iranâ€™s currency on international
sanctions. It is a convenient explanation for bothâ€”for the White
House, it suggests that U.S. strategy towards Iran is working; for
Ahmadinejad, ...

Israelâ€™s
iconic CEO Shai Agassi has been fired from his position at the electric
car company Better Place. He will be replaced by Evan Thornley, the
current CEO of Better Place Australia. This news comes hot on the tracks
of the companyâ€™s bold move to finally offer an attractive
leasing/char ...

Tomorrow,
a loose coalition of Jordan's Islamist and tribal opposition factions
will hold a demonstration in downtown Amman to demand faster and deeper
political and economic reform. The movement's leaders predict that
50,000 protestors will take part. Their "Inkath al-Watan ("Save the
Homeland" ...

Paula
Sellers suspected the small Nevada hospital where she worked was
overcharging Medicare and other health insurers for some emergency room
services. Sellers ran Boulder City Hospitalâ€™s health information
department, which helped apply the complex series of Medicare billing
codes doctors an ...

Fifteen
residents of Corpus Christi, Texas â€” so sickened by pollution they
have been deemed crime victims â€” are asking a federal judge to force
Citgo Petroleum Corp. to set up multimillion-dollar trust funds to cover
medical and relocation costs, in a case with national ramifications. A
jury ...

CounterCurrents

By
Cynthia McKinney
It is with great disappointment that I receive the news from foreign
media publications and Libyan sources that our President now has 12,000
U.S. troops stationed in Malta and they are about to make their descent
into Libya

By
Franklin Lamb
The signs from Libya are that this country remains volatile and that
contrary to NATO claims that it put into place a new democratic Libya
that the predictable next chapter is starting to unfold that may bring
the end of the NTC before the coming June elections when it is sched ...

By
Peter Symonds
The Obama administration has reinforced the threat of American military
strikes against Iran by doubling the number of US aircraft carrier
groups in the region. The provocative decision heightens the danger of
war in the Persian Gulf as the US moves aggressively to impose a de ...

By Toby ORyan
Who, you might ask, is John C. Stennis? What are the boons and benefits
for humanity accomplished by this John C. Stennis such that he came to
have his name emblazoned on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier?

Dear
Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael
Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning
alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere
the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a
light in ...

Dear
Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael
Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning
alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere
the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a
light in ...

A
friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along
some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has
written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the
competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our
young p ...

Yid With Lid

Note:
If you cannot see two videos in this post, Please click here.
Today's unemployment numbers remind me of my weekly football picks, with
my heart picks the Jets, but my brain which controls my fingers has the
last say..and it usually goes for the their opponents.
My heart hopes ...

Talk
about conspiracy theories. Not able to accept the fact their hero lost
the first debate, the left is accusing Mitt Romney of cheating.
A review of the debate tape reveals that, apparently, Mitt Romney needed
a cheat sheet to keep the lies straight.
The rules of the presidentia ...

NYC
Mayor Micheal "Mommy" Bloomberg is a strange bird. He regulates things
like salt, trans-fat and smoking in NYC and thinks its OK to distribute
the "morning-after" abortion pill to kids. In this exclusive report by
Newsbusted anchor Jodi Miller we learn that the mommy mayor has ap ...

Perhaps the only mainstream media reporter investigating and reporting
about growing scandal regarding the attack on the US Mission in
Benghazi, Libya is ABC's Jake Tapper. Today Tapper reported an
incredible find---an email showing the State Department rejecting
additional security for o ...

NY-1
is a rematch of the 2010 battle between Randy Altschuler the Republican
Conservative and the incumbent arrogant Tim Bishop. Last time
Altschuler barely lost to the incumbent (who today is facing a growing
pay for play scandal).
I urge you to watch these two videos, (one from a S ...

The Real Agenda

The
move sounds more like an attempt to keep people out of the UN-owned
Parks and Reserves and to favor large foreign-owned resorts. REUTERS |
OCTOBER 5, 2012 Costa Rica is poised to become the first Latin American
country to ban hunting as a sport, after Congress on Tuesday
provisionally a ...

New
studies on GMOs continue to warn about the dangers that these
laboratory creations cause disease. By RAVEN CLABOUGH | THENEWAMERICAN |
OCTOBER 5, 2012 According to French news source RFI, France is expected
to call for a Europe-wide ban on Monsanto’s genetically modified corn
follo ...

American
presence is extended until 2021. By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA |
OCTOBER 5, 2012 The government of Spain authorized the signing of the
amendment to the military agreement between Spain and the U.S. to allow
the deployment of a new missile shield system at the Naval Base of ...

By
LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | OCTOBER 4, 2012 The Turkish Parliament
authorized on Thursday to send troops to Syria. The motion was debated
yesterday after the death of five people in a Turkish village by falling
shells from Syrian territory. The Syrian government had already apo ...

Attacks
focused on poor neighborhoods populated by minorities. By JIM SALTER |
AP | OCTOBER 4, 2012 Doris Spates was a baby when her father died
inexplicably in 1955. She has watched four siblings die of cancer, and
she survived cervical cancer. After learning that the Army conducted s
...

Wind Watch

Neighbors
who are up in arms over the detrimental health effects of living near
Scituate’s town owned wind turbine, aired their grievances to the town’s
Board of Selectmen Tuesday night. Several neighbors that appeared
before the Board of Health last week and complained about health issues
from ...

The
Bruce County Federation of Agriculture are now voicing their concerns
over wind turbines, and say they will no longer support the Green Energy
Act. At a meeting in September — the Board of Directors decided that
while they were in favour of Green Energy the negatives out way the
benefi ...

The
Pantego wind energy project in Beaufort County has attracted a good
deal of opposition from a variety of agencies — the latest of which is
the Lenoir County Board of Commissioners. The commissioners voted
unanimously Monday for a resolution which called for much stricter
regulation by the st ...

Half
a dozen residents raised concerns with the impact windmills might have
on their health, property values and economic development, but the
common theme Monday night was that they didn’t want to have to look at
them. Public comments made during a planning commission meeting don’t
necessarily ...

Tippers News

Three
men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they
had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been
told.
Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment

The
three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for
transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex
trade have appealed against the verdict.
Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment

Coastal
Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including
sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now
Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the
United States
Submitted by Cher C. to Environment | Note- ...

The Freeman

“Pump
prices in California soared this week as key Golden State refineries
were disrupted at a time of low inventories, putting prices on track to
break a record set in the summer of 2008. The state average for a gallon
of regular gasoline jumped to $4.315 on Thursday, 18.2 cents higher th
...

“The
US Federal Reserve considered a new form of guidance about future
interest rates at its September meeting but decided that more work was
needed first. The new guidance would replace its forecast of low
interest rates until mid-2015 with an economic trigger – such as a lower
level of u ...

Most
Freeman readers have probably come across books that purport to defend
capitalism and the free market, but do so in a weak, apologetic way. The
authors of such books may feel the need to couch their arguments in
terms that sound appealing to Americans who have been steeped in
anti-capitalis ...

Do
you want someone to look up to, someone to follow, someone who’ll make
the big decisions for you? New York Times columnist David Brooks thinks
you should (“The Follower Problem,” June 11, 2012). For Brooks, there
aren’t nearly enough people willing to be followers. He looks back
nostalgically ...

In
his now-famous “You didn’t build that” speech, President Obama said,
“The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research
created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the
Internet.” Obama’s claim is in line with the standard history of the
Internet. That st ...

Teaching Online Journalism

One
meaning of the phrase “visual journalism” is simply photojournalism.
There are people who use the two terms interchangeably. I respectfully
disagree with that approach — mainly because the word “photojournalism”
is perfectly good, and clear. It is a word that ca ...

Like
any savvy blogger, I look at my blog stats from time to time. The stats
tell me a lot of people come to this blog because they are searching
for information about how to become a journalist, what to study, and
whether it’s smart to be a journalism major.
I teach about online journali ...

Having
just finished grading some student blog posts, I have a few thoughts:
1. Headline. The headline (or title) of a blog post should accurately
represent the content of the blog post. If the blog post is a critique
of, say, a news story, don’t write your blog post headline as if your p
...

I’m
catching up on some of the (many) things that have been written about
the recent Jonah Lehrer ethics case, and I’d like to highlight this
article for its breakdown and descriptions of some serious
transgressions:
Jonah Lehrer’s Journalistic Misdeeds at Wired.com
I think one thi ...

I’ve
been using Instapaper, a free on- and off-line reading tool, for a
while, maybe more than a year. Mostly I use it for its most common
purpose — to capture very long articles from a Web page and read them
later. Often I read them on my Kindle when I’m not connected to wi-fi
...

Facing South

Today
marks 50 years since James Meredith became the first black person to
enter the University of Mississippi, sparking a riot that some have
called "the last battle of the Civil War." Now 80, he has continued to
baffle admirers and detractors throughout his life.
read more

Most
of this campaign's rhetoric has focused on creating jobs and helping
the middle class. But many of the few jobs being created are low-wage
jobs, highlighting that job growth alone will not address the plight of
hard-working poor families, who make up a fast-growing portion of the
electorate ...

The
Democratic-controlled Wake County School Board fires a superintendent
hired by Republicans bent on ending a successful desegregation policy --
but the move may have put the system's funding in political peril.
read more

Ian Welsh

Elevated
from the comments, MarkFromIreland: Greetings Ian, Do you remember
Mohammed Ibn Laith? Gorilla’s Guides » 2007 » February » 15: I am a
Muslim I am Iraki maybe you believe that God told you that must turn
aside when you have been struck.That is not what God tells me. What God
tells me is ...

Elevated
from the comments, MarkFromIreland: Greetings Ian, Do you remember
Mohammed Ibn Laith? Gorilla’s Guides » 2007 » February » 15: I am a
Muslim I am Iraki maybe you believe that God told you that must turn
aside when you have been struck.That is not what God tells me. What God
tells me is ...

The
Fed has announced its third quantitative easing program. To state what
should be obvious, the effect on the economy for ordinary people will
be minimal, as with QE1 and 2. It will help banks, financial firms
most, other large corporations will also benefit. If you work at the
executive le ...

The
Fed has announced its third quantitative easing program. To state what
should be obvious, the effect on the economy for ordinary people will
be minimal, as with QE1 and 2. It will help banks, financial firms
most, other large corporations will also benefit. If you work at the
executive le ...

There’s
been a great deal of crying about the death of an Ambassador and others
in an attack on the US embassy in Libya. Now I’m a strong supporter of
the inviolability of embassies but I wonder why other people should be?
Embassy inviolability is part of one of the oldest strata of ...

Reality Asserts Itself

My
colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where
she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is
Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and
journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez
has become a terr ...

A
few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met
Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She
was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It
changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the
Israeli childr ...

I
listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find
something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of
such empty phrases it does not bear discussion. The more important
issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become
...

Ban
Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding
in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond
anybody's imagination".
At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have
died, and disease and hunger will c ...

Many
economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's
being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the
recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more
serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy
and worl ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

An
ambitious project to log all genetic variations that cause human
disease lunged forward this week with the launch of the Chinese “node”
of the Human Variome Project (HVP). Scientists and clinicians in China
meanwhile are hoping participation will spread genetic counseling and
genetic medicine ...

Americans
may soon be getting flu jabs made with cells and not eggs. The drug
company Novartis opened a first-of-its kind facility in the US to
produce influenza vaccines using mammalian cells, Novartis and US
government officials announced 13 December.
The approach is an alternative to conve ...

A
National Science Foundation (NSF) task force has finalized its
recommendations for tweaking the agency's two merit review criteria,
'intellectual merit' and 'broader impacts'. And central to that effort
was a non-prescriptive, big-tent definition of broader impacts, says
task force co-chair J ...

More
than 200 million hectares of land in poor nations was sold by
governments in land-grabbing deals with industry and investors between
2000 and 2010, a new study reports.
This high global demand for land is likely to continue for the long
term, concludes the study by the International Land ...

Forget
Kennedy Space Center. How about launching massive rockets from the
underbelly of the largest plane ever built? On Tuesday, Burt Rutan, of
aerospace company Scaled Composites, and billionaire Paul Allen, a
former Microsoft executive, announced Stratolaunch Systems -- a company
that aims to ...

new geography

For
over a decade, conventional wisdom has held that the future of the
world economy rests on the rise of the so-called BRIC countries:
Brazil, Russia, India, China (and, in some cases, with the addition of
an ‘S’ for South Africa). A concept coined by Goldman Sachs economist J
...

Never
mind the big-tent debate talk from both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney
about how their respective politics will benefit all Americans.
There’s a broader, ugly truth that as the last traces of purple fade
from the electoral map, whoever wins will have little reason to take
care ...

EMSI
recently developed a methodology for calculating expected wages for
occupations by region. The analysis is aimed at helping us better
understand what regional earnings should be given the performance of a
set of standardized occupations that are ubiquitous, stable, and
diverse acros ...

I
recently moved to Providence, Rhode Island, where I live in the town of
West Warwick. I’ve been learning the place more and soaking in New
England culture (and seafood). This area has a Rust Belt type profile:
declining population, post-industrial economic landscape, high
unemployment, etc. So ...

Sometimes the stakes are bogus, sometimes the fast lane hits a fork.
Sometimes southern California wants to be western New York
–Lyrics from Dar Williams’ song “Sometimes California Wants to Be Western New York”.
For long, making cultures and making people have been d ...

GM Watch

Anyone
who found our website unavailable at times yesterday, or who has seen
the reduced home page we're currently operating, may perhaps have
guessed that we're once again under cyber attack.
A new campaign of aggressive DDOS attacks reached a new pitch yesterday,
but we're doing everything w ...

EXTRACT:
Unless their intention is to deliberately mislead the public, GM
advocates within the science community must stop masquerading as
objective by packaging their partisan views in a veil of "pure" science.
NOTE: For more on Fiona Fox
http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Fiona_Fox
For more ...

Allergy free milk from cloned NZ cow slammed as likely to do more harm than good
Jessica Strauss
ABC, 4 October 2012
http://www.abc.net.au/rural/wa/content/2012/10/s3604075.htm
An anti GM group in New Zealand wants the government to shut down research into an allergen free milk produced by a cl ...

1.We
need more Foxes and less foxiness
2.Andrew Wadge is charged with the protection of public health. When is
he going to take that responsibility seriously?
NOTE: The following piece is taken from the blog of Andrew Wadge, the
Chief Scientist at the UK's Food Standards Agency (FSA). In it he ...

Cryptogon

Via:
New York Times: The next generation of robots for manufacturing will be
more flexible and easier to train. Witness the factory of Tesla Motors,
which recently began manufacturing the Tesla S, a luxury sedan, in
Fremont, Calif., on the edge of Silicon Valley. More than half of the
building i ...

Via:
Telegraph: The family of a senior partner at Deloitte has called for
answers after he apparently committed suicide days after the auditing
firm was linked to the Standard Chartered Iran dollar trades scandal.
Daniel Pirron, a partner in Delloite’s key General Counsel’s office in
New York, w ...

Via:
New Scientist: As the United States’ extended heat wave and drought
threaten to raise global food prices, energy production is also feeling
the pressure. Across the nation, power plants are becoming overheated
and shutting down or running at lower capacity; drilling operations
struggl ...

Via:
Telegraph: Professor Julian Savulescu said that creating so-called
designer babies could be considered a “moral obligation” as it makes
them grow up into “ethically better children”. The expert in practical
ethics said that we should actively give parents the choice ...

Via:
WPRI: Ranchers have struggled with skyrocketing corn prices, because
the drought has made feeding their livestock very expensive. But one
rancher has turned to a very sweet solution. At Mayfield’s United
Livestock Commodities, owner Joseph Watson is tweaking the recipe for
success. &# ...

The Economic Collapse

Did
you watch the presidential debate on Wednesday night? It is absolutely
amazing how they can have an hour and a half debate about the economy
and say so little. It seemed like both candidates were falling all over
each other wanting to talk about how much they value education, but
will more ...

In
the financial world, the month of October is synonymous with stock
market crashes. So will a massive stock market crash happen this year?
You never know. The truth is that our financial system is even more
vulnerable than it was back in 2008, and financial experts such as Doug
Short, Peter ...

I
know, there really isn't any good news in that headline. Americans are
steadily getting poorer, fatter and sicker and yet most people continue
to operate under the delusion that things are somehow going to get
better. Sadly, not only are we not better off than we were four years
ago, the tru ...

The
Federal Reserve continues to pump up this "bubble economy" by
recklessly printing money and by setting interest rates artificially
low, and the U.S. Congress continues to stand aside and allow them to
systematically destroy our economy. The U.S. Congress could choose to
end this madness at ...

If
you are unemployed for an extended period of time, people are going to
look at you differently. Unfortunately, this is especially true if you
are a man. In our society, men are primarily defined by "what they
do". If you have been unemployed for a long period of time, that can
make social ...

SEEN
AT :
http://www.thewaterchannel.tv/en/videos/categories/viewvideo/829/agriculture/promoting-farmer-innovation
Promoting Farmer Innovation Promoting Farmer Innovation tells a
fascinating story of what farmers can do themselves. Farmer innovators
are a surprisingly creative source of ideas. T ...

SEEN
AT :
http://www.thewaterchannel.tv/en/videos/categories/viewvideo/1524/integrated-water-resource-management/combating-desertification-local-solutions-to-a-global-problem
Combating Desertification: Local Solutions to a Global Problem This
film highlights the global problem of desertification ...

A
message from Lloyd Liebenberg Hi Willem, I saw your posts about bottle
towers and got so excited about the simplicity and elegance of the idea.
I have begun a small project with my sons and we are still in …
Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

Paula Sellers suspected the small Nevada hospital where she worked was
overcharging Medicare and other health insurers for some emergency room
services.Sellers ran Boulder City Hospital’s health information
department, which helped apply the complex series of Medicare billing
codes doctors an ...

Four Republican House leaders want federal officials to suspend payments
to hospitals and doctors who switch from paper to electronic health
records, arguing the program may be wasting billions of tax dollars and
doing little to improve the quality of medical care.In an Oct. 4 letter
to Healt ...

The U.S. House race between Republican Rep. Dan Lungren and physician
Ami Bera in central California has already seen more outside money than
any other House race, and with a new campaign from the nonprofit League
of Conservation Voters Inc., the money continues to pour in.The League
of Conse ...

A million-dollar donation by a foreign-owned corporation to a Republican
super PAC has raised legal concerns and opened up the controversial
Citizens United Supreme Court decision to new criticism.Restore Our
Future, the super PAC supporting Republican Mitt Romney’s run for
president, receive ...

Fifteen residents of Corpus Christi, Texas — so sickened by pollution
they have been deemed crime victims — are asking a federal judge to
force Citgo Petroleum Corp. to set up multimillion-dollar trust funds to
cover medical and relocation costs, in a case with national
ramifications.A jury i ...

backofthebook.ca

By
Frank Moher Justin Trudeau is such an easy target, so easy to
reflexively dismiss, that the wait-and-see attitude taken by much of the
media towards his candidacy for the Liberal leadership is only prudent.
However, we have now seen him, on the night when he had his best shot
at presenting an ...

By
Mark Leiren-Young Forty years ago today, on October 1, 1972, CBC
launched “The Beachcombers,” making Canadian television history and the
Gibsons tourist industry. “The Beachcombers” became a fixture for
Canadian families for almost 20 years. A few weeks after the show’ ...

By
David@Sixthestate.net In recent days I’ve done what I can to show
readers how horrendously the national media is coping with the news that
one of its own, accomplished Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente,
plagiarizes in her columns. It hasn’t been pretty. First, The Globe
unsuccessfully t ...

By
Montreal Simon It has been a seemingly endless nightmare, a horror
story not only for Omar Khadr, but also for the country that let him
down so shamefully. But at least he is finally home. From cbc.ca: “Omar
Khadr has been returned to Canada and is being held at a
maximum-security priso ...

By
David@Sixthestate.net Seriously. This is starting to get absolutely
ridiculous. I’m gratified to see the National Post and the Toronto Star
jumping on the Margaret Wente plagiarism bandwagon. But there are still
people referring to this as though it was an isolated incident, and
there are eve ...

libcom

A few hours ago, a bomb has stroke a house in a
small turkish village in Urfa near the Syrian border killing 5 people
including at least two children and their mother.
A few hours ago, a bomb has stroke a house in a small Turkish vill ...

We’re glad to announce that after 620 days in prison Pavel Syramolatau
was released from prison by president pardon on September 27th. Pavel
was arrested on January 17th 2011 due to attack on KGB building in
Bobruisk, which was announced as solidarity ac ...

wps-stretch.jpg
Indonesian anarchosyndicalist comrades of the
Workers Power Syndicate and other fellow workers face retribution
including sackings for attempting to organise in response to various lab
...

Free Range International

This
will be the last post I write for the FRI blog. If this is the first
time you have seen this blog stop reading this right now and go back to
October 2011 in the archives section because those are some of the best
posts I ever wrote about Afghanistan. Or go to the [...]

Our
little posse made it out of Afghanistan without any dramas. My brother
Tim left with me because The Bot had made it perfectly clear that his
IED hit from the year before had made him completely unstable and a big
pain in his ass. We went to London again and both my brother and [...]

Editors
note: Be sure to start this series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas
Comes Home) so it makes sense. We will try to get more posts up sooner
than we have been lately but Dalton is, to be honest, not doing as well
as we hoped . Baba Tim is also banged up again and [...]

Editors
Note: It is important for first time readers to start this story from
the beginning. This is a (mostly) fictional account by my brother,
Dalton Thomas Lynch, who is using the pen as therapy as he adjusts to
living a normal life back in the states. Any donations received by the
FRI bl ...

Dalton
continues to heal himself using creative writing as his vehicle for
change. Any donations our loyal readers are able to spare for this
cracking tale will go directly to Dalton. For the record, I (Baba T)
did not say “Vet or Ventilate” and insist it was “If we can&#8217
...

The Story Behind the Story

This
pretty much says it all. “In every age it has been the tyrant, the
oppressor and the exploiter, who has wrapped himself in the cloak of
patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the people.”
(Eugene Debs, 1855-1926, speech Canton, Ohio, 16th June 1918.) The
Life of an A ...

Part
of the “programming” of the masses is brainwashing them that only those
“MD’S” (i.e. Medical Deities) in white coats are qualified to dispense
health information. The Truth is that most “MD’s” are themselves
programmed from day one in “M ...

This
is an update to my February 2011 post on “Event Contracts” -
http://wp.me/pUCM2-4P Just to refresh your memory – the term “Event
Contract” is big EDOMITE money strategically invested to reap a huge
profit following a devastating event that is in reality CAUSED ...

This
is an absolutely correct assessment. Remember the following definition:
HEGEMONY 1: preponderant influence or authority over others :
domination 2: the social, cultural,
ideological, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group 3
Reasons the US an ...

The
work of Dr. Keshe in “secure” research bases in Iran is causing the
Rothschild Cabal sleepless nights. Imagine a world where 1. Energy is
FREE 2. Food is readily available 3. Money is obsolete. This was the
situation in Libya, that is, until NATO bombs began falling and the GREE
...

du la bab - Now is the Time

There’s
a great Story from the New York Times / International Herald and
Tribune about a 28 year old product designer from Luxembourg attempting
to live a carbon neutral life in Barcelona, Spain. Her story is at
certainly inspiring, although sometimes uncomfortable to read about… who
...

Here’s
a great video from a Cambridge University Physicist David Mackay. He’s
discussing practical ways of measuring domestic power consumption, ways
of producing energy, and he debate about replacing traditional fossil
fuels based methods of producing electricity with more sensible ...

I
am writing you today in vehement opposition to the toxic air bill
offered by Senator James Inhofe, S.J. Res 37. The Online Petition I
signed via the Environment Defense Action Fund is listed to follow and
emailed to Sen R.Blunt and Sen C.McCaskill. My notes to Dirty Oil Roy
Blunt are at the bo ...

GRATITUDE
OF THANKS TO SOUTHERN METAL PROCESSING. For all my readers who have
been reading about my Back-Yard City Garden. I’m sure you have noticed
that I’ve had some great help from little green thumbs this year. Little
Green Thumbs-Inspecting the Corn Silk on the Sweet Corn Plants ...

Climate
change is literally killing us: In America’s 40 largest cities, it’s
estimated that more than 150,000 Americans could die by the end of this
century due to the excessive heat caused by climate change. Find out
more about killer heat and how many more heat-related deaths clima ...

The
extensive renovation achieved an 80% reduction in energy usage. By
Jennifer Goodman Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energy
Producer The new structure sits on the fieldstone and brick foundation
of the old one. Designer Andrew Webster speced generous glazing on the
south and east sid ...

Proskauer
Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging,
putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic
tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said
"we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that
would ...

The
government-appointed body that oversees Voice of America and other
U.S.-sponsored broadcasts is accusing Iran of jamming radio and
television programming into the Middle East and eastern Europe amid
protests in Iran over the Iranian currency crisis.
read more

In
a confidential letter to the 27 EU member states, portions of which
were provided to Bloomberg News, the foreign ministers of Europe’s three
largest economies criticized Iran for its lack of openness over its
nuclear program and called for raising the cost to Iran’s leaders of
refusing to aba ...

Most Revolutionary Act

From the New York Times – go to paragraph 15 on page 2: Despite the
highly publicized withdrawal of US troops last December, recently a
unit of Special Operations soldiers was quietly deployed to Iraq to
“advise on counter terrorism and help with intelligence.” Meanwhile I
...

Red Button Studios September 23, 2012 Free download at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aseiCqEx9BQ Film Review On Fukushima
Beach is an hour long brilliantly constructed documentary that uses a
montage of mainstream and Internet media clips to unpack the Fukushima
disaster. In addition to pro ...

Spain's anti-austerity protests Great interview from the
conservative-leaning Bloomberg TV explaining why austerity measures in
Italy, Greece and Spain are worsening the economies of these countries.
Mariana Mazzucato, economics professor at the University of Sussex,
warns that current a ...

GM wheat has special dangers for unborn kids
According to Natural News, Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and
Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) has developed a novel variety
of genetically-modified (GM) wheat that contains an altered protein and
enzyme-suppressing mechanism ...

The job line
A recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece by Mortimer Zuckerman,
Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of US News and World Report, indicates the
true US unemployment rate is 19%, when you include the people who have
given up and quit looking for work and the involuntary part-timers w
...

Michael Moore - Must Read

On
Kilmeade and Friends, October 4, 2012
WOODWARD: Now I've not done any reporting on this, but I'm going to give
you my honest view – something happened, maybe in foreign affairs, they
got some intelligence report or something, you know, who knows the
things that can happen in a presiden ...

From
'Transaction Man: Mormonism, private equity, and the making of a
candidate' in the New Yorker, October 1, 2012:
"The private sector is less forgiving," [Romney] said. "If you make
serious mistakes in the private sector, you'll lose your job, or, if
you're in a position of responsibilit ...

...
"You can say anything you want during a debate and 80 million people
hear it,'' observed Peter Teeley, press secretary to Vice President
Bush. If reporters then document that a candidate spoke untruthfully,
''so what?''
''Maybe 200 people read it or 2,000 or 20,000,'' he said.
...
Ne ...

Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore
“Don’t just stand there, the niggers are comin’!”
Walter was twelve, and he was only trying to be helpful.
“Whaddaya mean?” I asked while standing in his driveway with my baseball glov ...

\Kasaba
throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during
a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death
penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly.
Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit
at the camera ...

For
SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight
people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered
injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah
Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two
heads, beli ...

For
SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON:
Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that
political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime
and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes
caused damage ...

Energy Collective

After
last week's review of President Obama's energy record and campaign
materials on energy, Governor Romney's energy plans present a sharp
contrast. They are based on a fundamentally different view of energy and
the economy, relying on markets to allocate capital to the most
productive opportu ...

Last
week I wrote about a new analysis by NRDC, The Sierra Club and League
of Conservation Voters of gasoline use across the country, specifically
comparing counties to one another to determine which are sponging up
most gasoline and therefore literally driving our oil addiction.

EU Times

2
million kilometers of foreign purchased land in developing countries is
either idle or used for Western biofuel production, according to a
British charity. Oxfam’s report estimates an area the size of London is
sold every six days. The report states that between 2000 and 2010, 60%
of inv ...

Two
Coptic boys aged 9 and 10 are awaiting trial after an Islamic cleric
accused them of tearing up and urinating on the Koran. The boys’
families say the boys are illiterate and found the Koran pages while
playing with garbage. ­Sheik Gamal Shamardal, a Muslim cleric and the
local leader of a h ...

The
British Business Secretary Vince Cable says the UK economy is currently
“in a very deep crisis”. Cable told the state-run BBC that it is “very
difficult” to predict when the UK economy would recover from the
recession and resume growth. Meanwhile, the Markit/Cips purchasing
managers’ index ( ...

The
BBC was up to their usual tricks again last weekend. The largest and
most spectacular display of working class patriotism for 25 years was
either ignored or mis-reported as a sectarian provocation. More than
30,000 loyalist band members and Orangemen paraded past hundreds of
thousands of spe ...

Monsanto,
Bill Gates, the Rockefellers, Craig Venter and other investors are
working behind-the-scenes to bring genetically engineered (GE) algae to
market with products that include fuel, animal feed made with manure,
human food and vaccines. The US government have a stake in this
enterprise, t ...

Stonecipher News

From
Chris Stonecipher's
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page: It is important to be value neutral
wihttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifth clients to avoid harm by mixing
your own values and beliefs with clients that is potentially damaging
to th ...

With
the rising increase in teen violence, much research has been directed
to determine if video games, violent television shows and other
electronic media is directly related. Gentile, D.A. & Anderson C.A
(2003) has done extensive research in which supports the theory that
video games lead to v ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

AT&T said on Thursday that it plans to carry Samsung’s Galaxy
Camera, an Android-based point-and-shoot with built-in 4G wireless. The
point-and-shoot camera market has been hit hard. Smartphones
increasingly replace traditional cameras as consumers prefer the ability
to immediately tweak an ...

AT&T has announced plans to offer 4G-capable Windows tablets from
Asus and Samsung this fall. The news comes on the heels of the
announcement that AT&T will also be carrying Samsung’s 4G capable…
camera . Asus VivoTab RT AT&T’s first Windows RT tablet is the Asus
VivoTab RT. This is ...

The Obama State Department reduced the number of trained Americans
guarding US officials in Libya accorfinhg to a top Republican in
Congress. This was despite the fact that the US consulate was attacked
twice in the last six months

Photo credit: Getty Images Oh, the catfights! And to think, this
season of American Idol hasn't even aired yet! Here's the latest in the
Nicki Minaj / Mariah Carey feud. Mariah opened up to Barbara Walters
about the heated auditions

President Obama made fun of Mitt Romney's debate call to cut off
federal dollars for PBS at a rally in Madison, Wisconsin on Thursday.Â
"When he was asked what he would do to actually cut spending and reduce
the deficit, he said he'd eliminate public television funding," Obama
said. "But I jus ...

Groklaw

Here
is the statement we just received from a Motorola spokesperson:
"Motorola Mobility today announced that it has acquired Viewdle, a
leading imaging & gesture recognition company. Motorola and Viewdle
have an existing commercial agreement and have been collaborating for
some time. Te ...

A
judge at the district court in Manhattan, New York, will hear opening
arguments in the case on Friday after EMI sued ReDigi for copyright
infringement earlier this year....
Launched in October 2011, ReDigi bills itself as the first legal online
marketplace for second-hand digital material....
...

I'm
sure you are feeling the ongoing angst associated with software
patents. In the past few months, Google,
Judge Posner, and the
opinion pages have all expressed dismay about software patents and how
they're being used. Ancedotally, everything I'm seeing and hearing
indicates that software p ...

Ellen
Pao, a highly credentialed former BigLaw attorney, says, through her
lawyer, that she has just been fired by Kleiner Perkins and plans to
pursue a wrongful termination claim,
reports the San Francisco Chronicle.
But the firm puts a different spin on the situation in a written
statement p ...

Politics in the Zeros

About
100 people, mostly students, turned out on September 25 to hear
incumbent Democrat Frank Chopp of the Washington House of
Representatives’ 43rd legislative district debate challenger Kshama
Sawant of Socialist Alternative at Seattle University.Sawant received
over 10% in a blanket pr ...

San
Quentin death row Credit: commons.wikimedia.orgBoth sides in California
Proposition 34 primarily base their arguments in economic terms. Are
executions less expensive to the State of California than life in
prison? The state analyst says Prop 34 will save $100-130 million a
year. Neither sid ...

Source
unknownHundreds of Vermonters have called for an independent
investigation of police violence in Burlington last July, but city
officials including the mayor, the police chief, and now the five
members of the city police commission have joined in effectively
stonewalling any outside revie ...

Just World News

I
realize it is unseemly, in the world of international-affairs analysis,
for someone to say quite bluntly "I told you so". I realize, far more
importantly, that the situation in which Syria's 25 million (or so)
people find themselves is one of deep and very hard-to-escape crisis--
one that, whe ...

I've
recently been devouring Evan Osnos's brilliant piece of reporting in
The New Yorker, on the exciting, now-underway, negotiated transition to
much greater democracy in Myanmar/Burma.
Huge kudos to Osnos for doing this great research and reporting, and to
The New Yorker for, presumably, fund ...

1.
War always inflicts grave rights abuses on residents of the war zone.
Additionally, its fog allows-- and its passions encourage-- the
commission of a large variety of atrocities such as are very rarely
committed in times of peace. Hence, actions tending toward the
exacerbation of tensions can ...

Despite
many setbacks and roadblocks along the way in Egypt, the political
situation there is still one of the most hopeful-- and certainly, the
most momentous-- phenomena in the region. Egypt, remember, really does
carry the strategic ballast of the whole Arab world. How things turn out
there i ...

In
these days six years ago, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert and his team were
battering much of Lebanon to smithereens in the "Dahiyeh War"--
designed, as we remember, to break Hizbullah once and for all, primarily
by battering Lebanese civilians and their infrastructure so harshly
that they would turn ...

frogblog

The
Green Party is pleased Mike Tyson has been refused a visa to come here
on a money-making speaking tour and we are grateful to the campaigners
who exposed the issue. There is no need or excuse to re-traumatise rape
victims by touring someone convicted of rape as a celebrity. We are also
pleas ...

Yesterday
I was in Christchurch with the Commerce Committee hearing the verbal
submissions on the Gambling (Gambling Harm Reduction) Amendment Bill.
There were around 29,000 written submissions on the bill, with about 400
or so submitters wanting to give oral presentations so the committee is
wo ...

I
feel very fortunate to live on Waiheke Island. It’s just 35 minutes by
fast ferry from downtown Auckland and its permanent population of
around 8000 people are friendly and are frequently spurred to action
over environmental or social injustices. It’s where I cut my political
teeth – because ...

As
New Zealand starts experiencing a wave of educational reforms, real
debate about what actually works for schools is crucial. On Thursday
morning I am hosting an education forum at Parliament with special guest
Pasi Sahlberg from Finland and Associate Professor Graeme Aitken of
Auckland Univ ...

J Kozy

History is not always progressive; there have been many instances of extensive regression. Immoral
institutions can more easily become worse than better. When the Capitalists have accumulated all the wealth there is
and have the means to take away any that is subsequently created, what will ...

The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution that has failed in every possible way. It is
notorious for having issued iniquitous opinions; it has not only failed to resolve but has exacerbated conflicts; and it
has consistently negated the ideals the founding fathers wrote into t ...

The economy is merely a sum of money, not practices that sustain the oikos, and the money that makes
up the sum is equally valued whether it results from virtuous or vicious, good or bad, constructive or destructive,
humane or inhumane, legal or illegal, beneficent or malevolent practices. A ...

Governments have never existed to solve problems domestic or international. Governments and their
institutions exist merely to further and secure the interests of favored groups, but We the People are never the favored
group.

Knowledge does not always prevail or even endure. When the Roman Empire fell, the Justinian Code
was replaced by Canon Law. The augustness of knowledge was transformed into heresy and mankind's
curiosity was virtually extinguished. The age became dark. In the 11th century, people began to st ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

By
Dr. Mercola
There were a record 4.02 billion prescriptions written in the United
States in 20111 – that's more than ever before.
There are 314 million people in the United States, and with 4.02 billion
prescriptions, that amounts to roughly 12.74 prescriptions per person.
The cost for a ...

By
Dr. Mercola
In a health report card published in September, titled "F as in Fat,"
the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Trust for America's Health1
predict that half of all American adults will be obese by 2030.
The report also predicts obesity-related illness will raise national he
...

By
Barbara Loe Fisher
It's that time of the year again when drug companies, doctors,
government officials and media conduct a national advertising campaign
to sell flu shots to every American.1, 2, 3 You can't pass by a
pharmacy,4 enter a supermarket,5 shop in a "big box" store6 or catch a
pl ...

By
Dr. Mercola
A staggering two-thirds of Americans are overweight, and about
one-quarter to one-third of adults fall into the obese category and it
is projected to go to FIFTY percent by 2030.
Obesity is now so common that it leads to more doctor visits than
smoking1 – and rates have been ...

By Hal A. Huggins, DDS, MS
"You need a root canal!" "Why?"
Do you really "need" a root canal? What are the conventional reasons for performing root canals over the past century?
Pain
Deep decay that has invaded the nerve chamber
Trauma (as in getting hit in the ...

Montreal Gazette

Jean-François
Lisée is the Parti Québécois cabinet minister responsible for liaison
with the anglophone community. Also minister for the Montreal region and
for international relations, he is writing in response to an open
letter to him published on Saturday's Opinion page by ...

Jean-François
Lisée is the Parti Québécois cabinet minister responsible for liaison
with the anglophone community. Also minister for the Montreal region and
for international relations, he is writing in response to an open
letter to him published on Saturday's Opinion page by ...

The
July 23 Letter of the Day ("An administration that's sucking the life
out of the Plateau," July 23) from Plateau Mont Royal resident Marion
Bialek, and a response from Projet Montréal vouncillor Alex Norris drew
lots of comment from readers at montrealgazette.com/opinion.

Food World Order

from
NaturalNews : The Monsanto company has forged a new partnership with
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company whose primary
focus seems to be on figuring out how to best crack the genetic code so
as to manipulate the way genes inherently express themselves. And ...

Useless
Eaters? Like Ted Turner Said?*
from popsci.com: Customers buying Kit-Kat bars in the United Kingdom
could be unwrapping a 21st-century version of Willy Wonka’s Golden
Ticket--a GPS unit the candy-maker will use to find them, apprehend them
and give them a prize. Nestlé claims to be th ...

from
brasschecktv.com: Dow Chemical wants to spray a whole lot of one of the
ingredients of Agent Orange on American crops. The US news media thinks
it's a great idea. Watch them spin... the best reporting money can buy.
Related Video: The History Of Agent Orange*

from
blog.al.com: What do french fries and cokes, candy bars and the school
cafeteria have to do with national security? According to a group of 300
retired admirals and generals called Mission: Readiness, three-quarters
of Americans aged 17 through 24 are not capable of serving in the
military, ...

CrusadeWatch

source:
Huffington Post, 8/24/2011
Michael Mungai
Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids
I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the
outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my
two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...

source:
Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011
Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect,
were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle
village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some
dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...

source:
Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011
Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures
around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom
and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West
Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...

source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011
In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged
Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with
having sex with young girls and getting them to abort
S Shyam Prasad

Whole Truth Coalition

COTO
Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi,
Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large
portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian
police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans fo
...

“Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax.
Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent.
His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators t ...

COTO
Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day
interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the
free zone
http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv…
http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot…
http://freemantv.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O ...

The Economic Collapse

Did
you watch the presidential debate on Wednesday night? It is absolutely
amazing how they can have an hour and a half debate about the economy
and say so little. It seemed like both candidates were falling all over
each other wanting to talk about how much they value education, but
will more ...

In
the financial world, the month of October is synonymous with stock
market crashes. So will a massive stock market crash happen this year?
You never know. The truth is that our financial system is even more
vulnerable than it was back in 2008, and financial experts such as Doug
Short, Peter ...

I
know, there really isn't any good news in that headline. Americans are
steadily getting poorer, fatter and sicker and yet most people continue
to operate under the delusion that things are somehow going to get
better. Sadly, not only are we not better off than we were four years
ago, the tru ...

The
Federal Reserve continues to pump up this "bubble economy" by
recklessly printing money and by setting interest rates artificially
low, and the U.S. Congress continues to stand aside and allow them to
systematically destroy our economy. The U.S. Congress could choose to
end this madness at ...

If
you are unemployed for an extended period of time, people are going to
look at you differently. Unfortunately, this is especially true if you
are a man. In our society, men are primarily defined by "what they
do". If you have been unemployed for a long period of time, that can
make social ...

The Talking Clock

Just
remember that death is not the end...
So, whilst The Talking Clock is - for now at least - mothballed, the
many friends and regular readers who are "awake" might want to join me
in my little sidestep venture:
http://conspiracywatch.blogspot.co.uk/
Blogrolls need to be added and the ...

On
the day that the BEST blogger in the blogosphere - Captain Ranty - has
posted to announce 'end of transmission' (though not for the first
time)...
...having mulled over what Captain Ranty has to say, rather than
replying to the above linked blogpost in comments or via 140 characters
on Twi ...

Here
are the highlights of the European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment
Decision) Bill, Second Reading debate which took place in the House of
Commons yesterday.
Bill Cash MP
Plainly, the implosion in Europe does affect us, and this failed attempt
to put a sticking plaster on an increasi ...

Archbishop
Desmond Tutu is all over the world's media for boldly coming out in
public with a call for George W. Bush and Tony Blair to stand trial at
the International Criminal Court in The Hague for war crimes over the
invasion of Iraq and overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
Part of Tutu's thinking ...

As
is now a yearly thing for this blog, a few images of the tributes left
at Kensington Palace for the fifteenth anniversary of Diana's death.
Those of our readers who come here as fellow Diana admirers are more
than welcome to save the images - links back greatly appreciated. Click
on the th ...

Facing South

Today
marks 50 years since James Meredith became the first black person to
enter the University of Mississippi, sparking a riot that some have
called "the last battle of the Civil War." Now 80, he has continued to
baffle admirers and detractors throughout his life.
read more

Most
of this campaign's rhetoric has focused on creating jobs and helping
the middle class. But many of the few jobs being created are low-wage
jobs, highlighting that job growth alone will not address the plight of
hard-working poor families, who make up a fast-growing portion of the
electorate ...

The
Democratic-controlled Wake County School Board fires a superintendent
hired by Republicans bent on ending a successful desegregation policy --
but the move may have put the system's funding in political peril.
read more

CenterLine

Karen
Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security
(CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities.
Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the
Center in 2003. Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →

Today’s
Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the
staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular
thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn
O’Hara … Continue reading →

In
Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King
Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third
congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States
Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →

In
Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to
Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments
Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy
weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →

In
Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing
Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers,
one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in
2009 reached a … Continue reading →

Tech Drive In

Blender movies have always amazed us all with its interesting little
stories and sophisticated visual graphics. While Elephants Dream was of
sci-fi kind with mind-bending ideas and graphics, Bug Buck Bunny was a
light-hearted comedy. The third one, Sintel, also had splendid graphics
to bac ...

Google is on a roll. Few weeks ago, Chrome had already surpassed IE to
become world's most popular web browser and now this. According to
official Android blog, Google Play Store has just hit the magic 25
billion downloads mark and to celebrate the occasion, Google is now
offering a ...

All you Linux aficionados can breath a sigh of relief. Steam is coming
to Linux and no, you don't have to wait till 2013 since Steam for Linux
is coming next month!
Steam for Linux Coming Next Month
In a recent blogpost, where the launch of Steam workshop for L4D2 game
wa ...

Based out of China, ZTE Corp is world's fourth largest mobile phone
manufacturer and fifth-largest telecoms equipment maker (based on 2011
statistics). And when such a big player decides to go ahead with
something entirely new and unknown, things can get interesting. For
starters, Firefox ...

As always, the brand new edition of Humble Indie Bundle is packed with
surprises. The latest Humble Bundle marks the introduction of 6 brand
new games which didn't had a Linux version prior to this. We had
introduced you to some of the hottest Linux games for 2012 recently, but
the latest Humb ...

Case About Bird Flu

Sipping
some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one
of my elderly neighbours mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian
Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God
protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the
Annexatio ...

You
read about it on this blog first: Globalist and Magna chief Frank
Stronach has been trying to recruit people for a new „false flag“
opposition party as the euro crisis escalates. Stronach even rang the
solictor handling the sale of my flat in Vienna and offered him a job as
Justice Minister. ...

At
a time of crisis, terror and tyranny, Claus von Stauffenberg seized
the initiative and tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the
Nazi regime in a coup in July, 1944. As such, he is an example to us all
today. The mass impoverishment of people by the fractional reserve
banking scam ...

*Frank
Stronach, CEO of Magna, rings solicitor handling the proceeds of the
sale of my flat and offers him job as justice minister and
chauffeur-driven car *Phone call happens almost immediately after I sign
the contract *Bizarre call comes to light after I return to sign a
second document: Schw ...

Here
it is again: a pdf copy of a letter from the Austrian Health Ministry
dated May 2009 confirming that I had made a complaint against Baxter and
Avir and that state prosecutors had started an investigation into the
incident involving the contamination of 72 kilos of seasonal flu vaccine
with ...

Invisible Opportunity

Kevin
Hayden Source: Salem News There has been a concerted national effort by
citizens to have the US government label GMOs. Opposing it are
governments intent not only to keep them unlabeled in the US but efforts
at the international level by the US government to remove all labeling
of GMOs thr ...

by
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) There is a conspiracy of
oppression taking place right now against free speech about GMOs. Just
this week, YouTube censored a whistleblower video that exposed Whole
Foods employees lying about the fact that Whole Foods sells masses of
genetically mo ...

By
Egoigwe Announcing his success at a 2001 press conference, the
president of Epicyte, Mitch Hein, pointing to his GMO corn plants,
announced, “We have a hothouse filled with corn plants that make
anti-sperm antibodies.” Hein explained that they had taken antibodies
from women with a rare condi ...

By
Mark Weisbrot October 04, 2012 “The Guardian” – - On 30 May, Dan
Rather, one of America’s best-known journalists, announced that
Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez would die “in a couple of months at
most”. Four months later Chávez is not only alive and campa ...

Lisa
Garber Activist Post Russian researchers will stream a live experiment
to show the effects of GMO feed on rats. This comes after a French study
found GMOs to have negative effects on rats, which lead to a
provisional Russian suspension on imported Monsanto genetically modified
corn. Russian ...

The
Veterans Crisis Line offers free, confidential support to Veterans in
crisis, as well as their family and friends. Save this number to your
phone: 1-800-273-8255 (press 1 for Veterans). You can also chat online
or text professional responders at 838255.

electric politics

Coal,
because strikes could cut off its supply, made modern social democracy
possible. Oil, because its supply has been pretty much guaranteed,
compromised democratic gains. Now that we're running out of cheap carbon
fuel what happens next? Dr. Timothy Mitchell, author of Carbon
Democracy, bring ...

According
to Chase Madar, "Bradley Manning deserves the Presidential Medal of
Freedom." Many venerable anti-war activists agree. Yet, to be fair, we
should ask ourselves whether there could be a meaningful distinction
between being a whistleblower and being an anonymous leaker. Whether,
indeed, ...

It's
not enough that we have sham Christian Evangelicals trying to run
things. Now a Mormon wants — or seems to want — the presidency. But do
you know what Mormons believe? I thought not. And yet, ironically, it
will probably be thanks to Evangelical mouth breathers that we won't be
...

Stipulating
hypothetically that religion is the big dividing line in American life
(per last week's show), it seems not unreasonable to make a case that
religious divisions manifest mainly through sectional politics. Taking
it a step further one might well wonder about sectional differences gene
...

To Do

Following
thoughtful input from a group of statewide experts in energy, Oregon
legislators crafted an RES designed to guide a utility's long-term
energy planning process towards more renewable energy. The state's three largest utilities must gradually ...

Voters in November will decide whether to put a strong requirement for renewable
energy into the Michigan's highest law. Proposal 3 would enshrine in
Michigan's constitution a requirement that a full 25 percent of
Michigan's electricity be produced by ...

Part of our approach to sustainability is to set ambitious goals, including to be supplied by 100 percent renewable energy. We envision a world where people do not have to choose between electricity they can afford and renewable electricity that is ...

On September 28, Brookfield Renewable
Power, Inc. a developer of hydroelectric power facilities announced an
agreement to donate 100 acres of land to the Hiawatha Institute for
Indigenous Knowledge (HIIK). HIIK, a newly established organization ...

The
latest and the technologically most modern Gizmo the iPhone 5, is said
to be environmentally less friendly than the iPhone 4S. This fact has
been revealed in a new report which suggests that public pressure is
finally yielding results and ...

The Washington State Department of Ecology
has been working on cleaning up the soil in Burien's Dottie Harper
Park, and we found an update on their website. “This work is part of the
Soil Safety Program, which cleans up park, school, childcare, and ...

Boise, Idaho - October 4, 2012 - US Ecology,
Inc. (NASDAQ-GS: ECOL) ("the Company") and a third party contractor,
entered into a Consent Agreement and Final Order ("CAFO") with the
United States Environmental Protection Agency ("U.S. EPA") stemming ...

Water Power

Bangalore:
An 80,000-strong police force will be stationed in Bangalore as
Karnataka observes a bandh in protest against the release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu on Saturday. Several Kannada outfits gave a call for a statewide bandh in protest ...

In 2012, the drought-stricken Western United States will ship more than 50 billion gallons of water to China. This water will leave the country embedded in alfalfa—most of it grown in California—and is destined to feed Chinese cows. The strange ...

ABINGDON,
Va. — The cheering stopped on Mitt Romney's campaign plane Friday
morning. The day before, aides had whistled and clapped when the Denver
control tower commended the Republican presidential nominee's debate
performance. It was a ...

While China–a manufacturing hub–isn't known for its pristine water sources, Mr. Fu notes that Tibet is, which is why the company sources its water there, from a reservoir at an elevation of 5100 feet in the Tibetan mountains. The Hong Kong-listed ...

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